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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
Jack Adams

Passed, Staff, Member

Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.
Patrick J. Kennedy

Enough, Said, Progress

Funnily enough, when I originally went in for my screen test, that set was already built.
Gerard Butler

Enough, Screen, Built

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.
Frank Miller

After, Virtue, Characters

And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test?
Thierry Henry

Work, Game, Cricket

We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects.
Laurel Clark

Life, Science, Human

We are really on top of one another at the moment and I think it is amazing how we stay so close. Maybe that's the test. Why not totally put yourself together, rather than always wonder whether you actually like each other?
Linda McCartney

Amazing, Yourself, Together

These days you can play almost 100 Test matches in six years.
Kevin Pietersen

Play, Days, Almost

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
Adam Savage

Science, Spirit, Failed

It was an unbelievable experience! The brakes, the g-forces and the power of the engine are beyond description. Thanks to BMW and WilliamsF1 for giving me this chance to test. The test team looked after me brilliantly and I learnt plenty.
Sebastian Vettel

Power, Experience, Giving

I bet the people who are in the auto industry right now have more than 10,000 good ideas about what might work and what we need to do is not come up with more good ideas. We need to go and test as many of those good ideas as possible.
Eric Ries

Work, Good, Possible

It takes a little work to be a vegan, but now it's really possible to have tasty stuff and it's better for you. I say the best test is go as far as you can and see how you feel. Personally, I feel great.
Grace Slick

Work, Great, Best

The only actress they didn't test was Garbo. Must have been her accent.
Judy Holliday

Her, Actress, Accent

I get extra time to take the test because of my ADD. Everybody's brains works differently and I just need longer for things to register.
Mary-Kate Olsen

Time, Everybody, Longer

I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test.
Mary-Kate Olsen

School, Bad, Nervous

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Dale Turner

Nothing, Mistake, Tried

I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.
Mayer Hawthorne

Music, Time, Try

You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story.
Robert Redford

Nature, Good, Yourself

Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while.
Wally Schirra

Women, Best, Him

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
John Acton

Judge, Country, Free

The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If I'm afraid of it, then I want to do it.
Brit Marling

Fear, Afraid, Whether

I come to urge my party to be open to debate and discussion; to move away from a lock-step litmus test which advocates abortion on demand in an effort to reach a broader national consensus.
Robert Casey

Away, Effort, Move

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.
Ingrid Newkirk

Best, Human, Animal

Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.
Ingrid Newkirk

Today, Human, Choices

And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.
Frank Langella

Away, Whether, Actor

And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?
Robert Sternberg

End, Parents, May

HGH testing is happening in Olympics. The science is there. It is a valid test.
Roger Goodell

Science, Happening, Olympics

In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
Theodore Sturgeon

Science, Fiction, Realities

Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether.
Theodore Sturgeon

Reality, May, Another

The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.
Brendan Fraser

Great, Power, Process

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