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Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.
Barney Frank
People
About
Give
Facts
Most
Concerned
Opinions
Issues
Hear
Sources
Get
Want
Information
Which
Them
Who
Activists
Reinforce
Anything that makes us take more seriously scientists - or economists or chemists or physicists or biologists - I think is helpful in times when things get distorted because of people not paying attention to all the facts.
Barry Barish
People
Seriously
Think
Distorted
All The Facts
More
Physicists
Take
Facts
Attention
Economists
Because
Makes
Scientists
Times
Get
Anything
Us
Paying
Helpful
Things
Biologists
The Obama administration, like those before it, promotes a disturbingly narrow interpretation of the Fourth Amendment, misapplying the facts of old analog cases to a radically different digital world.
Barton Gellman
World
Old
Digital
Before
Interpretation
Analog
Digital World
Those
Obama
Administration
Obama Administration
Cases
Facts
Like
Narrow
Amendment
Different
Radically
Fourth
Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.
Ben Goldacre
You
Together
Amazing
Emerges
Individual
Facts
Pieces
Amazing Things
Linked
Happen
Information
Meaning
Produce
Figures
Larger
Things
Things Happen
Pull
I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I try to get inside my stories.
Ben Mezrich
Try
Style
Research
All The Facts
Thousands
Inside
Write
Facts
Documents
Court
Nonfiction
Get
Stories
Pages
Sometimes the facts can get in the way of the telling of a good story. But they don't get in the way of the truth.
Bennett Miller
Truth
Good
Sometimes
Way
Telling
Good Story
Facts
Get
Story
I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.
Bill Ackman
You
Decision
Purely
About
Something
Rational
Emotion
Emotional
Facts
Investing
Investments
Making
Affect
Just
Where
Decision-Making
Your
As a scientist, the starting point is always the facts of the matter, whereas often, in politics, the starting point is how does this play in the next election.
Bill Foster
Politics
Matter
Election
Point
Facts
Does
Always
How
Scientist
Often
Whereas
Next
Next Election
Play
Starting
Starting Point
Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.
Bono
People
Liberty
Free
Corner
Facts
Like
Around
Want
We should follow the facts wherever they lead us.
Brad Schneider
Follow
Facts
Lead
Wherever
Us
Should
Fiscally, I'm very conservative... others say that I'm socially moderate. As a former judge, I listen to all the facts, and I make a decision as to what I believe is in the best interest of the state.
Brian Sandoval
Best
Judge
Conservative
Decision
Believe
Others
State
Say
All The Facts
Facts
Make
Fiscally
Very
Moderate
Listen
Former
Interest
Socially
Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
Great
Knowledge
Learning
Experience
Power
Own
Imagination
Brought
Above
Great Power
Facts
Sound
His
Subject
Curious
Task
Whaling
Literature
Which
Worked
Much
Actual
How, possibly, could the police have made the 'mistake' of charging the wrong man with the notorious Red Light Bandit crimes? That also is something that is fully revealed in the Pandora's Box of facts I have prepared.
Caryl Chessman
Man
Mistake
Light
Police
Made
Pandora
Pandoras Box
Crimes
Possibly
Charging
Something
Could
Facts
Wrong
Red
Red Light
Also
Box
Revealed
How
Bandit
Notorious
Fully
Prepared
The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
Cate Blanchett
Great
History
Cinema
Light
Perspective
Collective
Power
Draws
Facts
Well
Sheds
Well Known
Known
Story
Part of why making Pinwheel is so fun, is so exploding with possibility, is that a note, like a photo, can be a container for all kinds of things. It is the perfect social object. Stories, advice, jokes, diatribes, information, memories, facts, advertisements, love letters, grocery lists, and manifestoes can all be put into a note.
Caterina Fake
Love
Memories
Jokes
Advice
Possibility
Photo
Kinds
Object
Perfect
Facts
Part
Put
Container
Like
Advertisement
Making
Love Letters
Lists
Stories
Information
Note
Social
Exploding
Grocery
Fun
Why
Letters
Things
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Writing
Black
Fact
Facts
Points
Red
Printed
Mixed
Fiction
Fictional
Should
Ink
Biography
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
Celia Green
Research
Way
Astonishment
Attack
Point
Facts
Greatest
It doesn't matter if I'm a rival of Anderson Silva's or not; I'm also very objective. And I'm not going to take something from a guy that he earned. Anderson Silva earned the right to be called the greatest of all time. And those are just the facts.
Chael Sonnen
Time
Matter
Earned
Those
Anderson
All-Time
Objective
Something
Guy
Rival
Take
Facts
He
Also
Greatest
Very
Going
Just
Right
Because when we think about the real facts: 44 million Americans without health insurance, millions without jobs, a 50-year high on mortgage foreclosures, an historic high the third year in a row on personal bankruptcies.
Chaka Fattah
Health
Year
Think
Jobs
High
About
Facts
Mortgage
Because
Health Insurance
Without
Insurance
Real
Historic
American
Personal
Million
Row
Millions
Third
The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.
Charles Edwards
Success
You
Increases
Tell
Invariably
More
Facts
Merchandise
Advertisement
Sell
Pertinent
Included
Chance
Number
My approach to deciding cases is I look at the law, I look at the facts, and I do my best to apply the law to the facts and make a decision based on the law and the facts.
Charles T. Canady
Best
Law
Decision
Approach
Cases
Facts
Look
Make
Deciding
Based
Apply
This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.
Charlie Gonzalez
Nation
Duty
Analysis
All Americans
Facts
Leaders
Policy
Sound
Iraqi
Owe
American
Elected
Based
Actual
The first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back. If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form.
Charlie Munger
You
Together
Remember
Try
First
Back
Rule
Facts
Know
Isolated
Bang
Hang
Just
Form
Anything
Them
Really
Usable
Theory
Conservatism should be a reality-based philosophy, and the movement will be better off if it recognizes that facts really do matter.
Charlie Sykes
Better
Matter
Will
Conservatism
Philosophy
Better Off
Facts
Off
Movement
Reality-Based
Really
Should
I'd like for 'Facts of Life' to include more stories about Mrs. Garrett. But I wouldn't want to do a spin-off built around her.
Charlotte Rae
Life
About
More
Facts
Like
Around
Built
Want
Stories
Include
Her
There I was limited to what happened the same way I am with Riel. It doesn't feel like a great burden to have your story, to some degree, set. I am enjoying figuring out what I think is the most dramatic way of telling this set of historical facts.
Chester Brown
Great
Burden
Degree
Think
Dramatic
Way
Out
Telling
Some
Facts
Feel
Like
Most
Limited
Am
Historical
Same
Happened
Story
Your
Figuring
Enjoying
Set
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