Operates Quotes

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To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

The weird thing about this business - and I`m sure this operates in many other things, but it`s very present and acute in this business - is that a lot of people don`t realize that they have power. Particularly actors.

- Lili Taylor

(On whether he operates camera in his movies): The criterion is when I want to see what`s going on through the lens. Usually, it comes down to performance more than technique...I`ve also worked with the same camera crews, even down to the assistants, on the last four films. (1999). So, we`ve developed a family in camera. A family that picks right up where they left off every few years. I see the world from the perspective of a 5`8" person, not someone who is 6`4". so naturally, I`m going to choose certain lens heights over and again...Sometimes nature makes choices for you.

- Michael Mann

As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.

- Tom Jones

(on director Bernardo Bertolucci) Bertolucci is not like most directors I`ve worked with; there`s something beautiful, crazy, special about him. He`s funny too. He operates like a writer. No one knows what he`s going to do. Several million dollars are riding on him alone. He has the power, he goes ahead, upsets those who plan schedules, takes his own time, follows his own genius.

- Sterling Hayden

(Finn, in an interview with Newsday last winter, defended his contracts, saying he often paid for things himself. He said his program is proven and operates in 16 other school districts nationwide.) The notion that I was making too much money ... well, you don`t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate and I`m nobody`s dummy, ... I gave back to Hempstead a lot more than I got.

- John Finn

I can say this disaster was not as a result of any corporate sin, ... I firmly believe that is not the way God operates today. If you look at the giving of the son (Jesus) and the sacrifice placed there he says, `I died for sin, once and for all,` not just for all time, but for all people and all sins. Things are different post-Christ. After we see the giving, receiving and resurrection of Christ, there`s nothing in the New Testament that leads me to believe this is punishment.

- Jeff Wilson

To our customers, being locally owned means that we truly have decision-making capabilities at each bank. Each location operates independently allowing us to factor the local environment and dynamics into our decisions, unlike others who make decisions from a distance and don`t consider those factors. It brings a new level of customer service into play.

- Jim Bailey

We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.

- Kofi Annan

PETA operates by getting publicity any way they can. They`re comparing chickens to black people?

- John White

It is always gratifying to be able to make education happen. Awards like this one at Whatcom Community College are a fundamental part of our partnership program to improve the educational opportunities of low- and moderate-income individuals and families in the communities where U.S. Bank operates.

- Scott Wallace

The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.

- Sidney Blumenthal

The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.

- Harry A. Blackmun

I would like to know a little more about how it operates, ... It is something that we`re going to have to do, but I`d like to hear a more definitive explanation of how it`s going to operate.

- Jim West

There isn`t much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

- Iris Chang

With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county.

- Al Weed

In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods.

- Alan Skrainka

Jesus Christ is our supreme commander, but He operates only through His word, which is unquestionably a training manual. However, He has many interpreters, and few people see the Bible as a true training manual.

- Alex Hume

There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations.

- Alexander Wiley

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.

- Alice Plant

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

- Alicia Hollowell

We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem.

- Allama Iqbal

Al Qaeda operates by launching surprise attacks on civilian targets with the goal of massive casualties. Our only means for preventing future attacks, which could use WMDs, is by acquiring information that allows for pre-emptive action.

- Allan Kline

A government operates and acts differently than a company. So all we want to do is get some transparency here and then determine if the deal should go forward.

- Amadeu Altafaj Tardio

We`re all in the same room, so I want people to be involved with one another, but again you can`t decide exactly to what extent that operates. It varies all the time and it depends on the show, it depends on the audience, it depends on everything.

- Amadou Doutchi

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

- Amanda Leahy

In my home State of Texas, the Port of Houston operates as the United States` top port for foreign tonnage and our second largest for total tonnage, so I know how important this bill is for the protection of the American people.

- Amanda Weber

The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a cause which operates according to these rules.

- Andrew DiDonato

In many cases, we are holding people accountable, prior to people even knowing that there was a case. And that`s not anybody`s fault. That`s just the way the military justice system operates.

- Ash Rajan

(The commission operates on the belief that some closures are inevitable.) The marketplace is driving some changes and contractions, ... We`re not going to change that.

- Barbara Pletcher