Merits Quotes

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If you go to Hollywood, you`ve already sold out. By the sheer act of going there, you`re saying, `I need to go there because this is the only way I can get my movie made.` Baloney! Indiana`s the place to make your movie. Pontiac, Michigan. Whatever. Then you`re just making it on the merits of the movie. You don`t have to have any discussions about what`s hip now. Who can we get to do the soundtrack? You can actually put a score to your movie instead of a soundtrack. I get this thing all the time. Filmmakers go, `Can I send you a script? You`ll read it and attach yourself and we`ll package it.` Why can`t you get the money based on nothing, just the script? This whole packaging thing is out of control. Then you get absurd casting because it`s all packaged by the same talent agency. The sensibility is so bizarre.

- Bruce Campbell

We`re in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn`t want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.

- Neil Patrick Harris

Each student must considered on his own merits.

- Robert Newman

None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.

- Torquato Tasso

There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.

- Douglas Hurd

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits.

- Aaron Shea

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one`s own merits.

- Abel Evans

Don`t look for more honor than your learning merits.

- Acton Gorton

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

- Addie Ince

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

- Adelaide Anne Procter

We ought not to judge of men`s merits by their qualifications, but by the use they make of them.

- Adoko Nekyon

Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.

- Alan Curry

I further believe that all must be saved through the merits of Christ.

- Alan Parish

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

- Alan Shaw

I look upon another`s insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

- Alexander Gregg

I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.

- Allan Bense

Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.

- Amr Elnashai

Ultimately, ... I think the president is unusually good at ignoring all kinds of outside pressure with an important decision like this and focusing on the merits and what`s important for the long term.

- Angel Fuentes

Every case must be evaluated on its merits but the phenomenon of unjustifiable police homicides is something that is recurring at an alarming level.

- Annemarie Matulis

merits are in the details.

- Arthur Wing Pinero

It is all very well for the government to trumpet the merits of technology in reducing carbon emissions, but it simply isn`t enough; we need robust, measurable targets, not just vague aspirations.

- Augustin Chicarro

I think Microsoft will get a stay on at least some of Jackson`s conduct remedies, but I don`t think it will get a stay on all of them, ... If the company does get a stay on all of them, that is a positive signal for Microsoft on how the Appeals Court or the Supreme Court would rule on the merits of its appeal.

- Ayman Atieh

The Court did not rule on the merits of Mr. Roger`s dismissal. Rather, it concluded that a different procedure should have been used,

- Barry Burns

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

- Barry Cassidy

If you wish in this world to advance your merits you`re bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven`t a chance.

- William S. Gilbert

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t`were his own.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe