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We need to focus on green jobs: solar, wind, geothermal, biomass. There's so many opportunities. But other countries like China are getting ahead of the curve.
Alexi Giannoulias
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American Politician
China
Green
Other Countries
Wind
Ahead
Curve
Opportunities
So Many Opportunities
Solar
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If any group wants to not be disenfranchised, then understanding that there's going to be a learning curve for people who have disenfranchised them is important.
Shepard Fairey
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Contemporary Artist
Disenfranchised
Learning Curve
Understanding
Learning Important People
Curve
Learning People Important
Group
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In 2003, when I wrote the first 'Dhoom,' we were at the end of the curve of a certain kind of Hindi film, which was quite plastic. 'Dhoom' was unconventional then.
Vijay Krishna Acharya
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Hindi
Plastic
Unconventional
Curve
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The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you put in the effort, the learning curve is very fast.
Grimes
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Musician
Effort
Human Beings
Learning Curve
Obscure
Pursuit
Beings
Curve
Fast
Natural Thing
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R.B.I.' is such a playable game. You can pick the game up and play right away without a crazy long learning curve, and that's important for the casual fan and gamer.
Mookie Betts
/
Casual
Gamer
Learning Curve
Fan
Curve
Pick
Right Away
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I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.
Ben Affleck
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Actor
Learning
Comment
Curves
Learning Curve
Real
Steep
Tabloids
Appear
Burnt
Curve
Finally
Quick
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The story of how the Laffer Curve got its name begins with a 1978 article by Jude Wanniski in 'The Public Interest' entitled, 'Taxes, Revenues, and the Laffer Curve.'
Arthur Laffer
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Economist
Entitled
Public Interest
Article
Begins
Curve
Jude
Revenues
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I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.
David Knopfler
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Guitarist
Curves
Decades
Ducks
Etc
Fun
Learning Curve
Publishing
Curve
Duck
Label
Like A Duck
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Whether in services or in manufacturing, the trick is to stay ahead of the curve. I believe we should not wait to be disrupted - we should become disruptors ourselves.
Anand Mahindra
/
Manufacturing
Ahead
Stay
Curve
Disrupted
Wait
Trick
Services
Whether
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I used the so-called Laffer Curve all the time in my classes and with anyone else who would listen to me to illustrate the trade-off between tax rates and tax revenues.
Arthur Laffer
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Economist
Anyone Else
Time Me Who
Classes
Curve
Illustrate
Rates
Revenues
So-Called
Tax Rates
Tax Revenues
Trade-Off
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I never liked quantitative easing. It's misunderstood by almost everybody. Flattening the yield curve is not stimulative; flattening the yield curve is anti-stimulative.
Kenneth Fisher
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Manager
Yield
Curve
Liked
Easing
Quantitative
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In life when you get tested, when you get rejected by everyone and when you get pushed aside, you actually get the best out of it. That has been a learning curve for me.
Sourav Ganguly
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Cricketer
Learning Curve
Rejected
Tested
Life Best Learning
Actually
Everyone
Aside
Curve
Pushed
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2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.
Baldwin Spencer
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Former Prime Minister Of Antigua And Barbuda
Direct
Promise
Curve
Opens
Sectors
Substantial
Swiftly
Transform
Upward
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I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I've been able to rectify those events. It's been a bit of a learning curve, which is good.
Jessica Ennis-Hill
/
Learning Curve
Rectify
Curve
Jump
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You never know what curve balls life is going to throw you and there's no way I can predict anything or make any assumptions about what the rest of my life is going to be like.
Carrie Underwood
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Singer-Songwriter
Balls
Curves
Way
Life My Life Way
Life My Life Rest
Predict
Assumptions
Curve
Rest
Throw
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In America, we have this bell curve of certain values. And then we have another bell curve of different values, which is the Republican Party. And they're out of sync right now.
Foster Friess
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Businessman
Republican Party
Sync
Bell
Curve
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Parents can only do what they think is best, with the experience they have. The learning curve for every parent is that there's a limit to how much they can shield children from.
Matt Haig
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Novelist
Learning Curve
Parent
Best Experience Learning
Curve
How Much
Limit
Shield
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I never want to hear about going to hell if I did something wrong. But I do use Jesus as my curve point, and I think of his teachings when it comes to how I want to treat people.
Beth Hart
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Curve
Teachings
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Convention speeches are powerful tools to bend the curve of public opinion. George H. W. Bush's 1988 convention speech is a great example. His son's speech was also quite powerful.
Mark Mckinnon
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Advisor
Public Opinion
Tools
Bend
Bush
Convention
Curve
George
Great Example
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By moving them vertically, a representative mean curve could be formed, and individual events were then characterized by individual logarithmic differences from the standard curve.
Charles Francis Richter
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Seismologist
Differences
Characterized
Curve
Formed
Standard
Representative
Vertically
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Startups should be - if you graph their financial performance, it should be what's called a J curve. You start out at zero. you're not making any money; you're not losing any money.
Chamath Palihapitiya
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Venture Capitalist
Zero
Financial
Losing
Curve
Graph
Performance
Startups
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For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.
Casey Affleck
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Actor
Change
Curves
Easier
People
Thrown
Change Me People
Curve
Digest
People Change
Scares
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No no there wasn't any planned 14th season, we all saw the writing on the wall. The ratings had been going down and so fourth, that curve goes on every show and in everybody's life.
Larry Hagman
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Film Actor
Curves
Fourth
Wall
Writing
Curve
Planned
Ratings
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There's no such thing as median income; there's a curve, and it really matters what side of the curve you're on. There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.
Marc Andreessen
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Entrepreneur
Class
Income
Median
Middle
Middle Class
Vanishing
Absolutely
Side
Curve
Matters
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There is no doubt that someone who tries to throw a curve or pitch at any early age before he's developed, before his hand is big enough to grip the ball correctly, will damage his arm.
Robin Roberts
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Baseball Player
Damage
Doubt
No Doubt
Arm
Ball
Big Enough
Correctly
Curve
Developed
Early Age
Grip
Throw
Tries
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With technological advances, there's a very natural curve between cost and complexity and adoption. When the cost and complexity are high, the adoption rate is - let's call it 'modest.'
Lisa Su
/
Adoption
Complexity
Cost
Modest
Rate
Technological
Advances
Curve
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So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.
Sonny Terry
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Musician
Cotton
Curves
Learning Curve
Muddy
Player
Water
Album
Bought
Curve
Harmonica
James
Listened
Waters
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I started with Apple, in a pre-Windows era when PCs seemed to involve more of a learning curve. But the fact that I'm yet to acquire so much as a single virus still seems a very good thing.
William Gibson
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Novelist
Acquire
Learning Curve
Apple
Curve
Good Thing
Involve
Pcs
Seemed
Virus
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When 'The Bell Curve' came out, I'd have lectures with lots of people chanting and picketing with signs, but it was always within the confines of the event and I was eventually able to speak.
Charles Murray
/
Chanting
Lectures
Always People Speak
Lots
Bell
Confines
Curve
Event
Signs
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I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay 'happened'. I think that's all part of the learning curve, part of fate. I'm just glad that it happened.
Mike Peters
/
Learning
Fate
Glad
Important
Learning Curve
Things Happen
Things
Just
Anything
Part
Stay
Curve
Happen
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When I was at Hinckley I was on £200 a week. I was flying around getting myself into trouble here and there. It was a learning curve, relying on money that wasn't coming and having to survive.
Andre Gray
/
Flying
Learning Curve
Curve
Relying
To Survive
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Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
James Patrick Murray
/
Legal
Sports
Baseball
Eye
Spit
Stealing
Anywhere
Ball
Curve
Except
Optical
Umpire
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To reduce the risk of a global environmental catastrophe, and to avoid reversing the course of human progress, the world must urgently bend the curve of global emissions away from fossil fuels.
Johan Rockstrom
/
Environmental
Catastrophe
Emissions
Human Progress
Bend
Curve
Fossil
Fossil Fuels
Fuels
Reduce
Reversing
Urgently
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One of my business partners would remind me that no fashion line lasts forever, that we would hit the down curve eventually, and that we needed to look for new brands that complement the first one.
Daymond John
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Entrepreneur
Brands
Business Partners
Complement
Lasts
Partners
Curve
First One
Business Look Me
Remind
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I think one thing as far as my learning curve and what I'm learning - there is a time to take a sack, and then there is also a time to try to find a way to maybe throw the ball at a receiver's feet.
Brock Osweiler
/
Learning Curve
Receiver
Curve
Sack
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Jack Nicklaus liked to curve the ball by opening or closing the clubface at address. I never felt I was good enough to do it his way. I didn't like changing my swing path, either, which some guys do.
Lee Trevino
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Golfer
Closing
Opening
Path
Address
Ball
Changing
Curve
Liked
Good Way Enough
Guys
His Way
Jack
Jack Nicklaus
Swing
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I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve.
Andrea Jung
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Business Person
Branded
Ceo
Curves
Firm
Firsts
Learning Curve
Six Months
Traditional
Curve
Fast
Occurs
Stocks
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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
Dag Hammarskjold
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Diplomat
Strength
Balance
Contracts
Curves
Delicate
Law
My Soul
Severe
Soul
Wave
Muscle
Bold
Breaking
Curve
Meet
Obey
Shall
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Yes, our tree has an interesting shape. The center branches reflect the shape of the zero curve. When extreme parts of the tree are reached the branching pattern changes to accommodate the mean reversion.
John Hull
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Zero
Accommodate
Branches
Tree
Extreme
Center
Curve
Parts
Pattern
Reached
Reflect
Shape
Yes
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One component of the leading economic indicators is the yield curve. Bond investors keep a close eye on this, as it illustrates the spread or difference between long-term interest rates and short-term ones.
Kenneth Fisher
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Manager
Investors
Long Term
Short Term
Spread
Yield
Bond
Component
Curve
Illustrate
Interest Rates
Rates
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Me personally, I'm a guy who it took a long time to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing. I relate to a lot of that finding oneself a little later in the game, or being thrown a curve later in the game.
Kurt Sutter
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Screenwriter
Curves
Games
Long
Oneself
Relate
Thrown
Time Game Me
Time Long Me
Time Long Game
Curve
Finding
Personally
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I love to see a woman in high-heeled shoes. There's something about the curve of the feet up the leg to the butt that's really, really wonderful, and the right pair of shoes can give you the right silhouette.
Tyler Perry
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Actor
Curves
Feet
Shoes
Wonderful
Butt
Curve
Leg
Pair
Silhouette
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If you look at the paths of other actors, most people have a curve where you hit it and there's a time where you make a lot of money and they let you make your movies, and then they take it away and it's gone.
Casey Affleck
/
Actor
Time Money Movies
Curve
Paths
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On the Net, the bell curve reclaims its tails. The uncommon is as accessible as the common. The very fragmentation of the Internet allows us to find ourselves in other people - and to know that we are not alone.
Virginia Postrel
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Writer
Fragmentation
Tails
Uncommon
Accessible
Bell
Curve
Net
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The key thing for me has always been how we realize the mission - enabling every professional in the world to change their own economic curve by the strength of their alliances and connections with other people.
Reid Hoffman
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Entrepreneur
Connections
Enabling
Alliance
Curve
Mission
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Especially with the live, just the way I curve words, it's about expression. It's so emotive, to be able to release these words into a mike. It really emphasizes this insane tingle down my spine whenever I play.
King Krule
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Singer-Songwriter
Insane
Mike
Release
Spine
Curve
Emotive
Tingle
Whenever
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I think you need to understand games to write them. There's a learning curve, just like there's a learning curve in anything. It's not precisely the same as film or television, but you're using the same muscles.
Bruce Feirstein
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Screenwriter
Learning Curve
Muscles
Curve
Precisely
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Commercial fishing is always so behind the curve of technology that they were building ships with wooden hulls and masts in the 1940s, though it also had a diesel engine, which probably was used most of the time.
Mark Kurlansky
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Journalist
Diesel
Fishing
Ships
Time Technology Always
Curve
Engine
Wooden
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Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.
Ernie Pyle
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Journalist
Bridges
Curves
Dark
London
Night
Odd
Peaceful
Silver
Someday
Thames
Balcony
Curve
Returned
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Hardly anybody realizes that the first couple of chapters of 'Coming Apart' were basically a recapitulation of the argument in 'The Bell Curve.' That's how little people focused on 'The Bell Curve's' real message.
Charles Murray
/
Argument
Chapters
Bell
Curve
Hardly
Little People
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