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Most philanthropists would still rather donate to elite schools, concert halls or religious groups than help the poor or sick.
‐‐ Noreena Hertz -
Most photo apps before asked something of the users. They said, 'You produce, act, and perform.' 'Instagram' said, 'Let us take care of the secret sauce.'
‐‐ Kevin Systrom -
Most photographers work best alone, myself included.
‐‐ Elliott Erwitt -
Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.
‐‐ Bill Brandt -
Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.
‐‐ Duane Michals -
Most physicists like myself won't believe the result until every possible caveat has been investigated and/or the result is confirmed elsewhere.
‐‐ Lisa Randall -
Most pianists listen to about four or five different piano players before they call it quits and say, 'Okay, I've got my thing together.' Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett and maybe Chick Corea. Or maybe before that, Oscar Peterson.
‐‐ Jason Moran -
Most pieces take between two and three weeks and involve more than 40 people from the fabric cutters to the embroiders to the sewers. It's an elaborate undertaking.
‐‐ Naeem Khan -
Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you don't believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.
‐‐ Chuck Yeager -
Most pitchers are too smart to manage.
‐‐ Jim Palmer -
Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.
‐‐ Dan Quisenberry -
Most places in the Midwest, you ski on piles of trash, like retired landfills.
‐‐ Nick Goepper -
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
‐‐ Maya Angelou -
Most players I play with, I don't look at their swing when they're over the ball or anything like that.
‐‐ Tiger Woods -
Most players in this league say they want consistency.
‐‐ Isaiah Thomas -
Most players who play tennis love the game. But I think you also have to respect it. You want to do everything you can in your power to do your best. And for me, I know I get insane guilt if I go home at the end of the day and don't feel I've done everything I can. If I know I could have done something better, I have this uneasy feeling.
‐‐ Andy Roddick -
Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments.
‐‐ Jim Evans -
Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.
‐‐ Terry Eagleton -
Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.
‐‐ Henry Rollins -
Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master... it's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.
‐‐ Charles Bukowski -
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
‐‐ James Broughton -
Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.
‐‐ James Broughton -
Most police officers are good cops and good people.
‐‐ Rand Paul -
Most policy makers embrace a religious-like belief that the market can and should solve every problem.
‐‐ Eric Maskin -
Most political journalists come to Washington because they're snappy writers, big thinkers, or news breakers. Me? My ticket to the big leagues had little to do with talent. It was mostly about the governor I was covering, Bill Clinton.
‐‐ Ron Fournier -
Most political wives are accidental politicians.
‐‐ Kellyanne Conway -
Most politicians are not authentic.
‐‐ Simon Sinek -
Most politicians are vain. Many of them are stupid.
‐‐ Alex Pareene -
Most politicians aren't allowed to express themselves any more.
‐‐ Ken Livingstone -
Most politicians come into politics because they want to make a difference; we just have different ideas how to do it.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon -
Most politicians keep close tabs on what's happening back home and work assiduously to keep lines of communications open with the political players in their states or districts.
‐‐ Joshua Micah Marshall -
Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that.
‐‐ Lyn Nofziger -
Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win.
‐‐ Paul Begala -
Most poor people live in the poorest countries.
‐‐ Bill Gates -
Most popular records are action-packed to the last semi-quaver.
‐‐ Chris Squire -
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca -
Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
‐‐ Larry David -
Most practising scientists focus on 'bite-sized' problems that are timely and tractable. The occupational risk is then to lose sight of the big picture.
‐‐ Martin Rees -
Most presenters are consumed with preparing their content rapidly, which makes the material about their own narrow perspective.
‐‐ Nancy Duarte -
Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it.
‐‐ John Shadegg -
Most private-sector folks don't get a pension.
‐‐ Tim Griffin -
Most pro bodybuilders have bad relationships with their fathers. We want to prove something.
‐‐ Lou Ferrigno -
Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through social norms, which are indispensable. But you wouldn't want the government to be mandating courtesy.
‐‐ Cass Sunstein -
Most problems in poor countries are locally generated even though international factors do play a role.
‐‐ Andrew Mwenda -
Most producers I've known were writers first, and writing is a vital part of any game show. You could easily argue that the writing is the key ingredient that makes 'Jeopardy!' so great.
‐‐ Randy West -
Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves.
‐‐ Rio Ferdinand -
Most professional women I know - myself included - long since gave up looking for a rulebook or a roadmap; we make it up as we go along. Every day presents a new choice, a new challenge, which makes long-term career planning seem like an especially abstract exercise.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs -
Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
‐‐ Richard Masur -
Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.
‐‐ Norman Ralph Augustine
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