System Quotes

They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.

When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive.

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.

I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.

I never viewed money as being 'my money' I always saw it as 'the money.' It's a resource. If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system.

This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth.

Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.

The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

We need someone who is a strong representative of our value system.

They're definitely having their moment now because they know how to work the system, and I know I have to be that way, too, in order to succeed. But it's never been more frustrating for me.

After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route to self-determination for the Puerto Rican people under our federal system.

The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.

Well, if you're looking for me to lead a normal representative life, well good luck finding a foreign secretary who'd be like that - totally dependant on the political system and has never earned any money. Then you'll get the politicians you deserve.

The American people expect public servants to be able to police themselves. But instead of designing a system to enforce ethical conduct, Tom Delay and his cohorts have implemented a self protection system. Obviously, it wasn't good for democracy.

We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably.

I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it.

I think I just went into a system that was willing to utilize me and gave me opportunities and I felt fortunate to be able to go to Oakland and put the silver and black on. I wanted to prove to everybody that I could still play.

The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.

For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one.

I was at the end of the studio system so when I walked into movies, I had a magnificent suite in which I had a living room and a kitchen and a complete makeup room. I had everything just for me. With the independents, you're kind of roughing it, literally.

I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate.

I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.

I'm so lucky. I have such a great support system. All I have to do is run.

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system.

A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.