Pertinent famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.
-- Aldrich Ames

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Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.
-- Jack Vance

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I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers.
-- Jim Butcher

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The Pertinent Question is NOT how to do things right - but how to find the right things to do, and to concentrate resources and efforts on them.
-- Peter Drucker

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Asking what the question is, and why the question is asked, is always asking a pertinent question.
-- Raymond Geuss

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I became a filmmaker because I wanted to deal with issues that intrigued me, that I thought were pertinent, that would start dialogue.
-- Justin Lin

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The question of societal fairness is always pertinent.
-- Martin Schulz

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I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning; it is best not to worry about either.
Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.
I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.
I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
Everybody in Germany was for the -German cause. But then, after the war ended, when I heard the first Glenn Miller sound on the radio and these fantastic American music makers, I turned into a jazz fanatic. They called me Benny, after Benny Goodman. So, all of a sudden, the eyes of young Germans were opened to America - everything American was absolutely at the top of the list.
They tried boiling books, but that didn't work very well." "I'm surprised they haven't tried boiling one another." "Oh, it's been tried," Galladon said. "Fortunately. something happens to us during the Shaodâ€”apparently the flesh of a dead man doesn't taste too good. Kolo? In fact, it's so violently bitter that no one can keep it down." "It's nice to see that cannibalism has been so logically ruled out as an option," Raoden said dryly
Singing is the rawest thing. Having been naked in films or naked in photo shoots, it's nothing compared to singing. It's absolute nakedness. You are stripped bare!
There is really a whole new appreciation when you leave and then come back.
It would be right to state that, with the successful flight of the XR-4 in the summer of 1942, the helicopter became a reality in the United States.
There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy.