Slate Quotes

How do we escape who we are? I think going to college, I felt freer. I loved the clean slate. I wasn`t known as the sort of nerdy, studious girl. I met gay people for the first time in my life. I needed that expansion from a very conservative little town.

I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want.

I just cleared the slate and thought of her as a mother and went from there.

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

When you`re that many points behind and they wipe the slate clean, that`s what I don`t like.

He`s fair. Look at the way he treats people. Look at some of the guys that are here and have come through here. He gives guys opportunities where in other places they had been shunned. He wipes the slate and blacks the board and judges you on what you do here.

Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will be borne by hedge funds and other investment groups.

It`s an aggressive slate of projects this year. Our construction focus is comprehensive, including industrial, downtown and rural areas.

How do we escape who we are? I think going to college, I felt freer. I loved the clean slate. I wasn`t known as the sort of nerdy, studious girl. I met gay people for the first time in my life. I needed that expansion from a very conservative little town.

I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I`m thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely.

I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn`t understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs.

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.

We have an interest in the investigation, because we are convinced that we will be given a clean slate -- if the results are not falsified for political reasons, ... Syria had nothing to do with this murder, absolutely nothing.

Through the years, people said, `You should write a book.` I was like., `What about?` All of a sudden, I had something to write about. So you ask yourself, `Who is this for? Is this a money-making venture?` You kind of have a blank slate in terms of all those thoughts. You realize you`re not going to make a lot of money on it. You decide you`re writing it for your own sense of satisfaction. I just wanted one published copy in my hands.

We come back to one of my favorite tracks with a clean slate, a ton of momentum, and one sharp-looking black race car,

To be honest, the outlook is tenuous -- we`re still coming out with an initial slate, but we may be a week or two later; we just don`t know.