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I was asked to do a test commercial shoot for an Apple product which didn't mean much to me at the time. Some music player that holds all your songs. Sounded cool to me and I never gave up an opportunity to work, especially with the possibility of it turning into a national commercial. Coolest job I did in that time.
Harry Shum, Jr.

Music, Work, Time

Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced.
Miguel de Icaza

Problems, Running, Catch

In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test.
Robert Sternberg

Words, Worse, Tests

But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it.
Robert Sternberg

Self, Done, Everyone

I think the true test of a pop song, for me, and I've talked to a lot of other writers about this, is you take your demo, you pop it in your car and you drive down Sunset Blvd. to Santa Monica, and that's the Hollywood car test.
Ryan Tedder

Car, True, Down

For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth.
Mary Lou Retton

Worth, Ultimate, Athletes

I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.
Will Wright

Saying, Result, Natural

I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until I was 20 to graduate. That's why my role is so cool - Grissom is the complete opposite of me.
William Petersen

Life, Science, Cool

You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.
Richard Holbrooke

Against, Dangerous, Face

My experience of test screenings is that you don't know what kind of mood people are going to be in, and sometimes the studios accept what Joe Blo says - and this guy could just be a frustrated filmmaker, or not paying attention.
Antoine Fuqua

Experience, Sometimes, Accept

We are working with a biotech company, Calypte, which has designed a urine test for the HIV antibody.
Luc Montagnier

Working, Company, Hiv

My proposal now is to test a vaccine first on people who have been infected, and if you show some efficacy at this level, you might be able to go further to study uninfected people in a population with a high rate of infection.
Luc Montagnier

Study, Able, Show

No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.
Joseph Wambaugh

Book, Wait, Write

The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?
Johann Lamont

Rather, Difference, Argument

One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.
Martin Fleischmann

Songs, Theme, Tube

In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.
Evelyn Underhill

Father, Difficult, Often

But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.
Neville Marriner

Time, Important, Spend

I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.
Samuel West

Yourself, Through, Acting

These syllables, about 2,300 in number, were mixed together and then drawn out by chance and used to construct series of different lengths, several of which each time formed the material for a test.
Hermann Ebbinghaus

Time, Together, Different

As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.
Jonathan Winters

Fight, After, Wanted

Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale.
Richard Hammond

Time, Failing, Driving

In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so-called free improvisations.
Evan Parker

Long, Free, Sense

They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There's no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?
Heather Matarazzo

School, Why, Choice

The other thing is that doctors test only the most common estrogen level. There are three kinds of estrogen in a woman but they don't test the other two because they are so rare; mine was the third kind of estrogen.
Marie Osmond

Woman, Two, Three

I'm doing great heart-wise. I get a complete stress test once a year, and those have gone well. I have stents in two arteries, and they are holding up. My other arteries haven't shown any additional clogging.
Alberto Salazar

Great, Stress, Two

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.
Joseph Parry

Change, Time, Best

My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to 'em in a minute.
Barry McGuire

Words, Remember, Put

The first two missions have some test objectives, some new capabilities that we're going to try to develop on orbit to possibly be used on later flights.
Mark Kelly

Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School.
Mark Kelly

Time, School, After

That wasn't because of money, it was because I had a job for the next two days and wanted to work. So I faked a test. That was over two years ago. Why has there been no issue about it since then?
Marc Wallice

Work, Money, Job

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