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I have been measured on my merit and on my accomplishments.
Adena Friedman
Merit
Been
Accomplishments
Measured
So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
Al Yankovic
Work
Funny
You
Writing
Own
Rules
Parody
Merit
Know
Material
Gotta
Source
Source Material
Regardless
Whether
Why
Art can do the opposite of glamourise the unattainable: it can show us anew the genuine merit of life as we're forced to lead it. It is advertising for the things we really need.
Alain de Botton
Life
Art
Unattainable
Anew
Lead
Merit
Advertising
Forced
Genuine
Opposite
Us
Really
Show
Things
Need
Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
Alan Greenspan
Logical
Met
Before
Believe
Otherwise
Rand
Moral
Facts
Absolutes
Proposition
Merit
Without
Prove
Accordingly
Figures
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Alexander Pope
Soul
Eyes
Vain
Strike
Sight
Pretty
Charms
Wins
Beauties
Merit
Roll
May
Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
Alexander Pope
Honor
Men
Think
Other
Ourselves
Fondly
Merit
Praise
Then
I think, at the end of the day, if voters don't see the substance and the merit of the policies you're advocating, it won't matter what you do on social media.
Andrew Scheer
Day
You
End Of The Day
Matter
Social Media
Think
See
Merit
Voters
Policies
Advocating
End
Substance
Social
Media
It's possible to fund companies for $100,000 and find out rather quickly whether or not the idea they are pursuing has merit. Scientists now work much faster.
Arvind Gupta
Work
Faster
Out
Possible
Find
Rather
Pursuing
Idea
Merit
Scientists
Quickly
Whether
Much
Companies
Fund
Now
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Benjamin Disraeli
Great
People
Men
Ambition
Virtue
Console
Has-Been
Great Men
Merit
Limit
Been
Moderation
Lack
Want
Fortune
Just wearing expensive and glamorous clothes do not merit for me to do a film. There has to be a good story and a good role.
Bhumi Pednekar
Good
Me
Clothes
Wearing
Good Story
Glamorous
Merit
Role
Just
Expensive
Story
Film
I think there's always merit in getting out of our ideological silos and being exposed to points of view with which we don't always agree.
Bret Stephens
Think
Our
Out
Points
Merit
Ideological
Always
Getting
Being
Which
View
Agree
Exposed
Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.
Brian Eno
Good
Building
Think
Else
Something
Something Else
Soon
Merit
Sort
Doing
Off
Up
Any
Quite
Just
Being
Fun
Nearly
Things
Good Fun
Start
I like winning or losing, failing or succeeding on my own merit.
CM Punk
Losing
Own
My Own
Winning
Failing
Merit
Like
Succeeding
When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.
Cate Blanchett
You
Made
Dust
Gathering
Pleasurable
Collection
Critically
Pretty
Someone
Something
Bottom
Feel
Merit
Well
Audience
Proud
Done
Want
Place
Mean
Film
Found
Received
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Politics
Fired
Merit
Like
Target
Rewarded
Being
Raised
Position
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Love
Ambition
Own
Our
Recognize
Rivals
Toward
Merit
Indulgent
Graceful
Prize
Afford
Successful
Aspired
I support immigration, provided the people come through legally, and that is based upon merit.
Corey Stewart
People
Immigration
Through
Support
Merit
Come
Provided
Legally
Based
If you read the Freedom Charter carefully, you will find that - the clause that refers to education, and it says education must be free 'on merit.'
Cyril Ramaphosa
Education
Freedom
You
Will
Free
Carefully
Says
Must
Find
Charter
Clause
Merit
Read
Does 'Shooting Fish' have less artistic merit than a play like 'Angels In America,' which I did? Well, probably. But it's good for something.
Dan Futterman
Good
Angels
Something
Merit
Like
Well
Does
Fish
Than
America
Did
Shooting
Artistic
Which
Less
Play
The greatest job creation is driven by entrepreneurs and young businesses, so they merit special attention.
Elaine Chao
Job
Young
Creation
Job Creation
Entrepreneurs
Driven
Attention
Merit
Greatest
Special
Businesses
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Ambition
Despicable
Finds
Merit
Any
Cannot
Use
Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
Elia Kazan
Death
Waiting
Released
Inside
Write
He
Merit
Him
Loose
Salesman
Turned
Measure
Miller
The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.
Elliott Abrams
God
Bible
Jews
Punishment
Gifts
Merit
His
Repeatedly
Replete
Just
Story
Them
Ingratitude
Incidents
Receive
We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.
Eric Liu
Reality
Though
Tempted
Something
Entry
Merit
Institution
Like
Reduce
Concrete
Score
Exists
May
Depends
Want
Mean
Meaning
Measurable
Who
Sat
Deserves
I believe in a Republic of Merit in which water is allowed to find its own level, where voters, like drivers, are tested before being turned loose.
Florence King
Water
Before
Own
Believe
Find
Drivers
Allowed
Merit
Like
Voters
Loose
Tested
Being
Where
Which
Republic
Turned
Level
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Francis Bacon
Best
Men
Unmarried
Merit
Greatest
Childless
Public
Certainly
Works
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