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My wife's an architect, so she definitely has a very high-risk artistic profession, and she gets the idea that you're really sensitive, you really care what people think, you have a low threshold for criticism.
Matthew Weiner / Director
Architect
Artistic
Criticism
High Risk
Profession
Sensitive
Threshold
Low
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Loss prevention experts report that professional shoplifters calculate the value of the merchandise they are stealing to keep it under the threshold amount to avoid serious penalties and prosecution as a felony.
David Ige /
Amount
Experts
Felony
Loss
Merchandise
Penalties
Prevention
Prosecution
Serious
Stealing
Threshold
Report
Avoid
Calculate
Value
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My experience is, the writer I was when I began was only a fraction of what I feel capable of doing now. Don't stand on that threshold saying, 'I'm uncertain about my talent.' You can grow that part of yourself.
Anthony Mccarten /
Capable
Threshold
Uncertain
Fraction
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LaGuardia is jammed into just 680 urban acres; taxiways are tight; runways intersect; you can't launch a departure until the arrival on the other runway crosses the threshold or else the airplanes will ... collide.
Jeanne Marie Laskas / Writer
Acres
Airplane
Crosses
Departure
Runway
Threshold
Urban
Arrival
Intersect
Launch
Tight
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On average, the higher the novelty score a film had, the better it did at the box office. But only up to a point. Push past that novelty threshold, and there's a precipice; the revenue earned by a film fell off a cliff.
Hannah Fry /
Box Office
Novelty
Precipice
Revenue
Threshold
Cliff
Earned
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If you are interested enough in the climate crisis to read this post, you probably know that 2 degrees Centigrade of warming (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) is the widely acknowledged threshold for "dangerous" climate change.
Jeff Goodell / Author
Climate Change
Crisis
Degrees
Threshold
Acknowledged
Post
Warming
Widely
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The Orlando terrorist is an example of someone who was in the sights of law enforcement but never crossed the threshold from pre-criminal to criminal behavior and, thus, was not tracked adequately before this horrific act.
David Petraeus / Former Director Of The Central Intelligence Agency
Behavior
Enforcement
Horrific
Law Enforcement
Orlando
Terrorist
Threshold
Adequately
Criminal
Crossed
Sights
Thus
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
Frances Wright / Writer
Injury
Liberty
Steps
Threshold
Tyranny
Uncertain
Exert
Expense
Justly
Liberties
Platform
Thus
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You'd think a guy who has broken 35 bones in his body would have a high pain threshold, but mine is pretty low. I got hit in the shin with a golf ball once, and it almost brought tears to my eyes. I've had broken bones that didn't hurt as bad.
Evel Knievel / Daredevil
Bones
Broken
Golf
Golf Ball
Hurt
Pain
Tears
Threshold
Ball
Hit
Eyes
Low
Mine
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The threshold question: Will banks continue to exist? The answer is yes, because society will still need the two essential functions they provide: mobilization of capital from providers to users, and facilitation of payments for goods and services.
James P. Gorman / Executive
Goods
Mobilization
Threshold
Users
Banks
Capital
Exist
Essential
Functions
Payments
Provide
Question
Services
Yes
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We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on the morning of that first flight? The anticipation of Jonas Salk as he analyzed the data that demonstrated a way to prevent polio?
Joseph B. Wirthlin / Businessman
Journey
Morning
Anticipation
Brother
Data
Excitement
Flight
Imagine
Polio
Threshold
Wright Brothers
Analyzed
Brothers
Discoveries
Journeys
Prevent
The Wright Brothers
Wright
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That mystic clasp of love lies not on the threshold but at the end of spiritual life, and can be reached for the most part only after much spiritual exercising, many denials, self-denials, watchings, and, it may be, the Cross of pain and disillusionment.
Vincent Mcnabb /
Disillusionment
Mystic
Pain
Spiritual
Spiritual Life
Threshold
Life Love Pain
Cross
Exercising
Lies
Reached
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Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.
Ada Lovelace / Countess Of Lovelace
Imagination
May
Soar
Threshold
Unexplored
Wings
Unknown
Then
Amidst
Those
Commonly
Exact
Fair
Further
Walk
Learned
Par
Sciences
Termed
Which
Worlds
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I understand the worries of many - not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to say that technical progress has lowered the threshold that stops people from helping themselves to protected works without the slightest embarrassment.
Johannes Rau / Former President Of Germany
Embarrassment
Helping
Protected
Threshold
Auditorium
Lowered
Slightest
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The problem with depicting what's weird and what isn't is that it's got to this point of near total oversaturation. There's definitely a threshold at which that language and experience becomes tedious. How can something be weird if everything is apparently weird?
Oneohtrix Point Never /
Problem
Threshold
Weird
Apparently
Becomes
Definitely
Depicting
Near
Point
The Problem With
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I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'
Adam Ant / Musician
Boredom
Good Records
People
Records
Sound
Suicide
Threshold
Album
Cause
Low
Tantamount
They Say
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If Death Grips isn't the fourth horseman of a hip-hop apocalypse, its music at least tests the genre's threshold of extremity: The trio's abrasive, jittery style teeters on the edge of palatability, and plays toward a morbid curiosity to which many listeners won't succumb.
Anthony Fantano /
Death
Apocalypse
Curiosity
Extremity
Fourth
Genre
Hip Hop
Listeners
Morbid
Tests
Threshold
Edge
Horseman
Grips
Least
Plays
Succumb
Toward
Trio
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I feel like reality TV has thrown a difficult wrench in the system - on the programming and making side, and on the curating side - which is that we now have a higher threshold for the salacious. We have a higher threshold, unprecedented, for fast, cheap, and out of control.
Debra Granik / Film Director
Programming
Reality Tv
Threshold
Thrown
Unprecedented
Cheap
Wrench
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The Gottman Institute's study about arguments in long-term relationships concludes that couples with the best chance at long-term success are the ones with a low negativity threshold: if something's wrong, they speak up about it immediately. That's something I've taken on board.
Hannah Fry /
Institute
Long Term
Negativity
Threshold
Board
Couples
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After a decade in public life working to stop Iran from ever acquiring nuclear weapons, I cannot support a deal giving Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief - in return for letting it maintain an advanced nuclear program and the infrastructure of a threshold nuclear state.
Ted Deutch /
Billions
Dollars
Infrastructure
Iran
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Public Life
Relief
Return
Sanctions
Threshold
Weapons
Acquiring
Advanced
Billions Of Dollars
Decade
Letting
Maintain
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I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning.
David Christian / Historian
Complexity
Development
Fragility
Human Beings
Mark
Threshold
Picture
Beings
Collective
Course
Dangers
Planet
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Writing is harder than acting. I enjoy acting for just the brevity with which you can be in the experience of doing it. Writing is kind of more satisfying in that you're creating a world and doing something that feels bigger, but it's very time consuming and has a higher threshold for failure.
Justin Theroux / Actor
Failure
Acting
Bigger
Brevity
Consuming
Creating
Feels
Harder
Higher
Satisfying
Threshold
Time Experience World
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With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine almost by definition, machine-of-all-trades, capable of accomplishing or simulating just about any task that can be logically defined.
James Gleick / Author
Advent
Capable
Computer
Defined
Invention
Threshold
Accomplishing
Crossed
World Human Everything
Logically
Task
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
Abraham Verghese / Physician
Marriage
Baptism
Critical
President
Ritual
Threshold
Transformation
Use
Words
Associate
Crossing
Elaborate
In Other Words
Major
Other
Passage
Tell
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Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19,000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold.
Jeffrey Kluger / Writer
Car
Brand New
Ham
House
Pain
Physical Pain
Spending
Threshold
Depend
Fiscal
More Or Less
Sandwich
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There are several problems with the ACA's reliance on means-based inclusion criteria and mandatory participation in exchanges - the complexity of the exchange mechanism, and the potential for income-based subsidies to become a disincentive to earn if insurance rates escalate for those beyond the income threshold.
Ron Williams /
Complexity
Criteria
Inclusion
Mechanism
Participation
Reliance
Subsidies
Threshold
Exchange
Earn
Insurance
Mandatory
Rates
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People aren't necessarily as concerned with how you vote as long as they feel they have a voice. If you can cross that basic threshold - that is, when a voter knows you're willing to listen to them and that you care about their lives - then that's most of what you need to get their vote. It's not your voting record.
John Yarmuth / U.s. Representative
Concerned
Threshold
Vote
Voting
Willing
Your Long People
Basic
Cross
Necessarily
Voter
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The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents of his or her electronic device does not come close to meeting the threshold of 'criminal' activity, such as would give a government agent the right to seize and peruse their iPad just because they are returning from a vacation.
Bob Barr / Former United States Representative
Vacation
Activity
Average
Threshold
Abroad
Agent
Assumes
Average American
Contents
Criminal
Device
Electronic
Ipad
Meeting
Returning
Seize
Trip
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Access to our civil courts has been severely restricted by the combination of: the removal of legal aid from some cases based on their type, not their merit; a high financial threshold for the receipt of legal aid in other cases; and a failure to deliver a safety net for vulnerable individuals by the exceptional funding arrangements.
Keir Starmer / Barrister
Arrangements
Cases
Combination
Exceptional
Funding
Merit
Removal
Safety
Safety Net
Threshold
Vulnerable
Aid
Courts
Deliver
Net
Restricted
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