We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.
~By Dave Barry ~
Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.
~By Henryk Sienkiewicz ~
I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.
~By Adam Arkin ~
Instead, there were a variety of controls of which some could be influenced by bankers, some could be influenced by the government, and some could hardly be influenced by either.
~By Carroll Quigley ~
A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security.
~By Herman Kahn ~
I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.
~By Breckin Meyer ~
There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or information, not knowing who for, what service they worked for, and for a variety reasons got jailed, were tried and sentenced.
~By Markus Wolf ~
Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their history, experiencing the horrors of modern warfare on their own soil during World War II.
~By Eisaku Sato ~
Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
~By Rudolf Arnheim ~
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
~By Aphra Behn ~
I didn't go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I saw a variety of films from all over the world.
~By Jim Jarmusch ~
It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.
~By Roman Jakobson ~
My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of educational television, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.
~By John Sebastian ~
The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military vehicles and equipment to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.
~By Michael Oxley ~
The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
~By Igor Stravinsky ~
The only country where you see any positive movement within domestic consumption is Brazil, where you really do have a variety of coffees to make blends with.
~By Robert Nelson ~
There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday.
~By Jim Henson ~
However, it may occur that we will find ourselves using a variety of fuel sources to give us the energy we need support our lifestyles and boost our economy.
~By Virgil Goode ~
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
~By Albert Einstein ~
I worked with people I admire; Josh Lucas, who I'd worked with many many years ago on a pilot called The Class of 61 and Kurt Russell, and so there were a variety of different people that I enjoyed working with.
~By Andre Braugher ~
I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things.
~By Todd Barry ~
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
~By E. M. Forster ~
For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it.
~By Ron Moody ~
Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
A protracted legislative fight will not move us closer to where the music industry wants to be - delivering music to fans through a variety of different, innovative Web sites.
~By Hilary Rosen ~
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron.
~By Sasha Cohen ~
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
~By Petrarch ~
Our variety is one of the key reasons our customers love us. We continue to provide all of the menu items they love, while also offering new items to try.
~By Kenny Harrison ~
We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.
~By Ivor Novello ~
We need to shift the paradigm from reactive technologies to more integrative solutions that deal with the variety and complexity of the threats that are out there today.
~By John W. Thompson ~
Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.
~By Ashley Judd ~
A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.
~By Tim Holden ~
I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.
~By Peter Hammill ~
The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.
~By Mary Antin ~
I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative.
~By Steve Ballmer ~
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
~By Ansel Adams ~
Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only.
~By Robert Shea ~
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.
~By Sri Aurobindo ~
All three networks have always had a morning show but now cable of course is taking some of that audience away and a variety of other things, probably the Internet as well.
~By Katie Couric ~
Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.
~By Roger Ebert ~
It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other.
~By Alva Noto ~
The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor community, president and the congress in order to be able to do this.
~By Marc Morial ~
People want variety and something that is affordable.
~By Bobby Brown ~
One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.
~By Robert McChesney ~
I think I've had more of a variety in what I've done than most actors.
~By John Turturro ~
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
~By Jean Paul ~
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.
~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations.
~By Gary Miller ~
I wanted something that had the feel of a complete band and a variety of instrument. Apart from doing the album for musical satisfaction, I felt it was an important statement for other women - showing you don't have to rely on other people to do things for you.
~By Danielle Dax ~
Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked.
~By Buffy Sainte-Marie ~
I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself.
~By George Stephen ~
If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can't beat a place like the Air Force. I don't mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it's been a lot of fun.
~By Michael P. Anderson ~
We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.
~By Neil Tennant ~
Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.
~By Joseph Butler ~
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
~By William Cowper ~
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
~By Johnny Carson ~
My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
~By Hank Stram ~
We used to lift weights a couple of times a week, we did a lot of running. I enjoyed the variety.
~By Eric Heiden ~
I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style.
~By Kip Winger ~
The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.
~By Maxine Hong Kingston ~
Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.
~By Nicholas Sparks ~
For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have.
~By Tim Bishop ~
For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy.
~By Kim Campbell ~
I directed an episode of Touched by an Angel a couple of months ago, and I will be doing more of that. I just like to keep a bit of variety going; it keeps things interesting.
~By Gregory Harrison ~
I have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express different aspects of my persona and personal interests.
~By Ashley Judd ~
People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.
~By James Branch Cabell ~
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
~By Isaiah Berlin ~
The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.
~By Richard Price ~
We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
~By Lamar Alexander ~
It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.
~By Gilbert White ~
Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
~By Sasha Cohen ~
The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
~By Dan Lipinski ~
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
~By E. M. Forster ~
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
~By Samuel McChord Crothers ~
You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.
~By Jon Stewart ~
I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
~By James Thomson ~
The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.
~By Lynn Barber ~
Well, I have since seen you at Tinkle. It's a comedy show started by David Cross, me and Jon Benjamin. It features a wide variety of acts for all tastes and seasons.
~By Todd Barry ~
Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to.
~By Susie Bright ~
The hardest part of directing is the choosing. Unlike an actor who can do a variety of work, it is a year of your life, you can't afford to get it wrong.
~By Tom Hooper ~
Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.
~By Mary Wesley ~
In light of these facts Republicans have put forth a variety of proposals to make Social Security remain solvent for future generations. But up to this point, Democrats have chosen to oppose our good faith efforts and insist that indeed there is no problem.
~By John Doolittle ~
I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.
~By Nora Roberts ~
Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.
~By Joe Baca ~
Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms.
~By George G. Simpson ~
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.
~By Federico Fellini ~
I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.
~By Kenny Baker ~
I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.
~By Thomas Perry ~
Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.
~By Tipper Gore ~
In front of us lay a smooth sandy beach, beyond which rose gradually a high wooded country, and behind us was the sea, studded with numerous islands of every variety of form.
~By George Grey ~
I play a huge variety of roles.
~By Casper Van Dien ~
Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner.
~By Howard Staunton ~
I prefer working on films. I like the variety. There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then playing someone sweet for the next two. Films give you this opportunity.
~By Amy Weber ~
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