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Quality Quotes
"One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best."
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"The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved."
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"What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation."
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"Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills."
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"It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble."
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"Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality."
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"Even with the quality of players that we have, they're an extremely hard side to break down and once they get on top of you, you find it difficult to stem the flow of attacks."
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"Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers."
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"Maybe, one other match better; but if you look at the tournament as a whole, I played very high quality tennis for seven matches and raised my game when I needed to."
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"Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric."
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"You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality."
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"In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it."
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"One must strike the right balance between speed and quality."
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"Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality."
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"When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming."
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"As you look around the country there are still a significant number of states where their whole school debate is over school funding and we've been focused on the quality debate for most of the '90s."
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"The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer."
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"Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives."
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"Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality."
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"What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?"
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"But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like."
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"I hope we're all kind of influencing each other now to keep the quality up on those things. They seem to be getting better and better and better as there's not only sort of a film geek audience, there's also a general interest in the overall film consuming population."
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"There is a lot of use of ProTools in professional studios, but this is mostly for the special effects it allows, not for sound quality. These special effects soon fall out of fashion, and I don't think this trend will define studios permanently."
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"The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes."
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"You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop."
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"Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay."
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"I'd say that what we hear is the quality of our listening."
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"If people are given quality stuff to watch, they'll watch it."
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"The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim."
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