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It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of. — Bryan Ferry

First rate magician perform first rate magic effects, second rate magician performs third rate magic effects. — Amit Kalantri

Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself. — Henrik Ibsen

Consider a 15- or 20-year fixed-rate mortgage instead of a 30-year, if you can afford the monthly payments - they may not be as high as you think. — Suze Orman

They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate. — J.M. Barrie

If we increase freight rates, the goods will move through the roads and the condition of the roads will become worse. — Lalu Prasad Yadav

Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

the Bank's proper role in a crisis as the 'lender of last resort', to lend freely, albeit at a penalty rate, to combat liquidity crises.42 — Niall Ferguson

One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I like to play dirty. I can also be very, very exacting." Rate St. Sebastian. — Samanthe Beck

In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up. — Jesse Jackson

If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. — Chuck Palahniuk

It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business. — Robert Kennedy

Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president. — Richard M. Nixon

I am the man who knows too much to know anything, or, at any rate, to do anything, — G.K. Chesterton

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity. — Peter Drucker

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate. — Christopher Bram

I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format? — Wilbur Ross

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else. — Judy Garland

For schizophrenia, the recovery rate with drug therapy is under 15%. With nutritional therapy, the recovery rate is 80%. — Abram Hoffer

Countries where women have access to professional life are also those where the birth rate is higher. — Claude Martin

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. — Henry Adams

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker. — Stephen Hawking

We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people. — Nina Fedoroff

I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters. — Jack Vance

I'll betide thee, say I, and may the Gods, or at least the Athenians, confound thee for a vile citizen and a vile third-rate actor! Read the evidence. — Demosthenes

You're both growing and changing, and it's hard to grow and change at the same rate. — Jenny Han

As human beings, we have a terminal disease called mortality. The current death rate is 100 percent. — Randy Alcorn

A massive rate of change is normalcy for America. What we need is planned change - Progress. We need Progress! — Bruce Sterling

I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered. — Edwin Powell Hubble

Love doesn't grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, wild leaps, and this was one of those. — Ian McEwan

The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value. — Irving Fisher

Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. — Brian Skerry

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. — Alan Watts

Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating. — Brian Schmidt

If you drop a channel, you're incredibly unpopular, and if you pass along a rate increase, you're incredibly unpopular. — Brian L. Roberts

At the rate the Kings were finding mates, they were going to have to take turns eating supper because not everyone would fit at the table. — Donna Grant

Mason was a first-rate spatial voyeur, an autodidact of architectural exteriors. — Geoff Manaugh

Our rate moves will have an impact on the economy in 2013. Whether we raise or lower rates depends on how the economic situation develops. — Marek Belka

We're like a positively charged molecule, the rate we're attracting tragedy. — Robyn Schneider

I'm not paranoid, just prepared. There is a distinct difference and a higher survival rate for the latter." Rainey Bell, from "Molly: House on Fire — R.E. Bradshaw

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'. — Sarah Waters

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible. — William Faulkner

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist. — Margaret Atwood

The rate of profit ... is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin. — Adam Smith

Why couldn't relationships be reciprocal, both people steadily accruing interest at the same rate? — Emma Cline

American workers are first rate. — Christopher Dodd

Kemp-Roth was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate. — David Stockman

At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture. — Vance Havner

I'm fortunate enough with the surfing to be very much at home at the water - my pulse and heart rate are slower in the water than they are on land. — Ryan Kwanten

There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country, and statistics have shown that the recidivism rate for those criminals is high. — Jim Sensenbrenner

The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut. — Bion Of Borysthenes

Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate! — Horace Mann

Oratory should raise your heart rate. Oratory should blow the doors off the place. — Aaron Sorkin

You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel. — Maurice Ravel

All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United States averaged 81 percent. — Thomas Piketty

To double your successes, you might have to double your failure rate. — Mahatma Gandhi

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. — Thomas J. Watson Jr.

If you are asking me if I would advocate that the Chinese go to greater flexibility in their exchange rate, I certainly would. — Ben Bernanke

When you lose your job, the unemployment rate isn't four percent, it's 100 percent. — Thomas Friedman

At this rate, I'll live forever. — David O. Selznick

The divorce rate would be lower if instead of marrying for better or worse
people would marry for good. — Ruby Dee

Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work. — Kathe Kollwitz

The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it. — Katherine Mansfield

The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace. — Ezra Pound

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not. — Rand Paul

Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. I — G.H. Hardy

I think that, by comparison with $2,000 bottles of grand cru Burgundies, first-rate barolos, which sell for under $100, are undervalued ten-fold. — Joe Bastianich

He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits. — George D. Prentice

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer. — Richard Strauss

If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate? — Joseph Heller

There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate. — Hans Eysenck

The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement. — Andrew Sarris

But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate. — Gerald Finzi

'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness. — John Dryden

The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away. — Anne Lamott

Everybody will have lower rates, better quality, and better access. — Nancy Pelosi

The intensely felt subjective image is always the reason for making a first rate picture. — Henry Holmes Smith

I'm ginger, so it's hard to rate me — Jason Flemyng

At this rate, he was going to have the strongest tail tip of any Rownt living. — Lyn Gala

Those that believe this is merely a downturn are mad. Our industry is going to mature and as something matures, the rate of innovation does slow. — Larry Ellison

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers. — Barbara Walters

Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge. — Richard E. Grant

Spiritual evolution is part of every soul's destiny on Earth, and each soul grows and evolves at a different rate. You are right where you need to be. — James Van Praagh

Who can be wise, amazed, temp'rate, and furious,
Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man. — William Shakespeare

The value any business creates, listed or not, is determined by the rate at which it deploys incremental capital. And — Lawrence A. Cunningham

The latest scientific assessment has almost doubled the predicted rate of warming if no changes are made. — Donella Meadows

Fun fact about life or death fights between capes. You start letting your enemies make the first move, your mortality rate triples. — Wildbow

Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand. — John Ortberg

If we try to emulate the leadership style of others we perceive as successful, we end up being second-rate versions of someone else. — Henna Inam

I know some first-class Negroes. I also know some second-rate white people. — Lesley Kagen

Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere. — Sophocles

A cash advance on a credit card is one of the worst types of borrowing because the interest rate is typically 21 percent or more. — Suze Orman

Make poverty, sickness, and death central issues in the contract," he says, "it's no wonder the divorce rate is fifty percent. — Melissa Jensen

Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? — Ted Cruz

It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A first-rate story is easily killed by second-rate design. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public. — Frank Zappa

I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return. — Thomas Piketty