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AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence. -- A. O. Scott
I think managing pain with narcotics could be a useful skill. Hiding your true self from you co-workers, which is totally true. Exacting justice when it needs to be dealt. -- Duane Swierczynski
Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley. -- Ben Stein
No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself. -- Karl G. Maeser
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. -- Chuck Jones
If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us. -- Eugene Delacroix
I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed. -- Alex J. Morrison
I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet so expressive. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world - hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome. -- Deepak Chopra
Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted. -- David F. Houston
It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet. -- D. H. Lawrence
Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet. -- Edmund White
Anybody who is really walking with the Lord is embracing the foibles and the beauties and the differences of humanity, regardless of race, color, creed, economic stature and sexual proclivity, whatever. You embrace the beauty of humanity and not be exacting and belittling about the differences. -- Marcia Gay Harden
Social thinking requires very exacting thresholds to be powerful. For example, we've had social thinking for 200,000 years, and hardly anything happened that could be considered progress over most of that time. This is because what is most pervasive about social thinking is 'how to get along and mutually cope.' -- Alan Kay
I cannot be exacting because I respect myself. -- Franz Grillparzer
The most exacting jailer is our own conscience. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Bored by safety, the lover grows jealous and exacting. -- Mason Cooley
Respect is better procured by exacting than soliciting it. -- Sir Fulke Greville
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. -- Eugene Delacroix
It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains. -- Danilo Dolci
No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting. -- J. Frank Dobie
Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse). -- Mike Curran
Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand. -- Susan Abulhawa
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man. -- Clarence Darrow
The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress. -- Ingmar Bergman
The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society. -- Ogyu Sorai
Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness. -- Diane Setterfield
One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic. -- Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting. -- Henry Adams
The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects. -- Jacques Maritain
I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed. -- Alex J. Morrison
Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement, an insurance pact. It differs from the ordinary life insurance agreement only in that it is more binding, more exacting. -- Emma Goldman
Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh. -- Franz Grillparzer
Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity. -- Oswald Chambers
I'm more focused as a singer and hands-on with music and more exacting, and less trying to furiously fit a thousands thoughts into a four minute song. -- Dan Bejar
In itself, the practice of deception is not particularly exacting; it is a matter of experience, of professional expertise, it is a facility most of us can acquire. -- John le Carre
The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughest critic. -- Jack Nicholson
True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more exacting and rigid force-necessity. -- Emma Goldman
There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting, I didn't embrace it. I succumbed to it. -- Rod Serling
Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free. -- Judith Lewis Herman
Curses are exacting, legal arrangements of the spiritual world. Just like human contracts contain fine print and legally crafted language, satanic curses are filled with minutiae that required detailed voiding. -- Bob Larson
Food is exacting. The face is truly a canvas upon which our food choices paint an accurate picture. The body is truly a sculpture, chiseled and polished by our food choices. -- David Wolfe
Comedy is much harder, it's a lot more exacting. You can't just be real and you can't just use the same kind of techniques you use to fill up a regular scene. -- Jack Nicholson
In both its precepts and penalty, the law of God in its most exacting requirements was fulfilled by Jesus. And He did this in our place as our representative and our substitute. -- Jerry Bridges
The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret of all things, is comforting, terrifying and mesmeric. -- Peter Greenaway
But as the clerical pretensions are more exacting than all others, being put forward with an assertion that no answer is possible without breach of duty and sin, so are they more galling. -- Anthony Trollope
Teachers need our active support and encouragement. They are doing one of the most necessary and exacting jobs in the land. They are developing our most precious national resource: our children, our future citizens. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is in a country's interests to keep faith with its allies. States in this sense are like people. If you have a reputation for exacting favors and not returning them, the favours dry up. -- Margaret Thatcher

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