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The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood. Dennis Miller

Education Secretary System Directed More Badly Were American Wood Poorly

When you're doing what you love to do, you become resilient. You create a habit of taking chances on yourself. If you do what's expected of you, and things go poorly, you will look to external sources for what to do next, because that will be your habit. You will be standing there frozen. If you are just filling a role, you will be blindsided. Dick Costolo

Love You Yourself Will Become Habit Taking Taking Chances Look Because Doing Go Sources Role Expected What You Love Just Frozen Create Poorly Next Your Standing Filling Things Resilient External Chances

He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things. Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Will Few Nothing He Leaves Few Things Poorly Who Things Chance

Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas did when it gained a 44-to-41 percent margin in the Palestinian election of 2006. Elliott Abrams

If I had been prime minister, I would have offered apologies to the Dutch Jewish community without hesitation. This would refer both to our government's attitude during the Second World War and to the very late postwar discovery that the restitution process had been poorly conceived. Els Borst

Attitude War Government World Community Late Our Hesitation Minister Would Postwar Both Had Prime Prime Minister Conceived Without Refer Been Discovery Very Offered Dutch Process Poorly Apology Second World War Second World War Jewish Jewish Community

The problem that people don't understand is that active managers, almost by definition, have to be poorly diversified. Otherwise, they're not really active. They have to make bets. What that means is there's a huge dispersion of outcomes that are totally consistent with just chance. There's no skill involved it. It's just good luck or bad luck. Eugene Fama

Good People Bad Luck Problem Luck Active Otherwise Good Luck Consistent Definition Bad Outcomes Totally Bets Diversified Almost Involved Make Understand Huge Managers Just Poorly Really Skill Means Chance

I will make the argument that we are poorly adapted to our current environment. I mean, we did not evolve to sit all day and be exposed to giant amounts of really tasty food. George M. Church

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles. Henry Ward Beecher

Marriage Married Shackles Wings Well Person Poorly

I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility. James E. Rogers

A great story poorly told doesn't do anybody any good at all, and nobody wants to hear it, and nobody wants to read it. The craft of it is really more important than the subject matter. Jason Isbell

Good Great Matter Important More Nobody Great Story Read Hear Subject Subject Matter Than Craft Any Anybody Wants Story Poorly Really

History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all. Jeff Vandermeer

History Consequences Too Dreaming Often Us Poorly Shown

What offends me more than something sexist is something poorly written or unfunny or cliched. Jenji Kohan

Me Sexist Something More Written Cliched Offends Than Poorly

Baseball is a poorly run business. Jerry Reinsdorf

Business Run Poorly Baseball

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written. Jessica Lange

Easier Shakespeare Written Lot Than Modern Movie Scripts Poorly

It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised. Joyce Carol Oates

Good Something Something Good Write Revised Poorly Hard

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. Karl Kraus

World Sexuality Some Well Families Repressed Poorly Whole

CEOs are also chief capital allocators. This is a point Warren Buffett has repeatedly made: that the role management plays in allocating capital across businesses and boosting returns on that capital is a critical yet poorly recognized one. Kelly Evans

Management Made Recognized Critical Point Allocating Also Returns Repeatedly Chief Role Capital CEOs Poorly Across Warren Warren Buffett Businesses Plays

Our intelligence community was extremely poorly prepared before 9/11. Lawrence Wright

Intelligence Before Intelligence Community Community Our Extremely Poorly Prepared

You don't win tournaments by playing well and thinking poorly. Lee Westwood

You Win Thinking Tournaments Well Poorly Playing

I really look up to Ashley Graham and how she promotes her body and flaunts it. She's beautiful and stunning, and I'm not going to say I love her body on Instagram and talk about it poorly in my personal life. Lili Reinhart

I believe that we are missing a great opportunity. We as Republicans are not really emphasizing what brings us together, and that's conservative values: love of the country. Love of family. Personal responsibility. Hard work. Optimism. Those are the things that we should be communicating to Latinos, and we're doing that very poorly. Lionel Sosa

Work Love Hard Work Great Family Together Conservative Opportunity Values Responsibility Country Believe Conservative Values Those Latinos Great Opportunity Emphasizing Missing Doing Optimism Very Personal Personal Responsibility Republicans Communicating Us Poorly Really Should Hard Things Brings

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