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Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage. -- Thomas Friedman
Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage." -- Thomas Friedman
I'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in all kinds of different ways. So I'd be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways. -- Tim Berners-Lee
Rating systems work perfectly for players who play only in round robin closed events. I think most of them are overrated. Organizers invite same people over and over because they have the same rating and their rating stays high. -- Alexander Khalifman
A person's credit report is one of the most important tools consumers can use to maintain their financial security and credit rating, but for so long many did not know how to obtain one, or what to do with the information it provided. -- Ruben Hinojosa
It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial crisis happened because AAA ratings stopped being something that had to be earned and turned into something that could be paid for. -- Matt Taibbi
Ratings to me are a little like the Chinese Government. I don't fully understand what makes a rating go. I don't know what makes the American television audience respond to one person and not t another. There very seldom are great differences between many television personalities. -- Tom Brokaw
I hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings. -- Roger Ailes
You don't need to make shows about sex and drugs and violence to get ratings. -- Mark Burnett
Don't worry about your rating, work on your playing strength and your rating will follow. -- Dan Heisman
We're going to get that little bug before that little bug gets my poll ratings down any further. -- Jerry Brown
We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness. -- Bruce Lee
Whether I praise or criticize someone's action, I imply that I am their judge, that I'm engaged in rating them or what they have done. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover. -- Al Franken
I don't go by the ratings. I buy wine that tastes good. Statistically, anybody's ability to predict what will be a good wine a decade from now is limited. -- Richard Thaler
The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news. -- Peter McWilliams
A year ago my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the Supreme Court had just withdrawn, and my vice president had shot someone. Ah, those were the good ol' days. -- George W. Bush
Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn't share our rating system. To him, all sin is equally evil, and all sinners are equally lovable. -- Judah Smith
Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself. -- Billy Joel
Why waste so much time, energy, and money trying to buy the biggest house that your credit rating will allow? Truth be known, a small house can hold as much happiness as a large one. Sometimes it will hold even more. -- Ernie J Zelinski
Arrested Development was such an amazing experience in every way, and you know it was very unique in that it was a show that received a lot of critical acclaim, and yet we didn't ever achieve the ratings that we wanted. -- Will Arnett
When you need to borrow money the Mob seems like a better deal I think. 'You don't pay me back I break both yer legs.' Is that all? You won't take my house or wreck my credit rating? Fine where do I sign. Legs? Fine. You don't even have to sign anything. -- Craig Ferguson
I have pledged - to you, the rating agencies and myself - to always run Berkshire with more than ample cash. We never want to count on the kindness of strangers in order to meet tomorrow's obligations. When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits. -- Warren Buffett
Those individuals from the far left, and I'm talking about the Hollywood elitists and the United Nations and those individuals want us to believe it's because we are contributing CO2 to the atmosphere, that's causing global warming. It's all about money. I mean, what would happen to the Weather Channel's ratings if all the sudden people weren't scared anymore? -- James Inhofe
The news is a public service. It's a way to inform people of what's going on in their world. And when you make it about ratings and make it about ad dollars, there's no incentive to inform people. The incentive is to be sensationalistic and get as many people to watch as you can without any regard for truth or objectivity. -- Michael Schur
Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating. -- Frank Abagnale
With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership. -- Ron Fournier
I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat. -- Ralph Bakshi
I don't think the rating system places too much pressure on chefs. I prefer to put the pressure on my chefs to perform to the top standards. -- Alain Ducasse
I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India. -- P. Chidambaram
The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents. -- Helen Mirren
Michelle Obama has gone from political skeptic to political partner to a woman with a White House agenda of her own, and an approval rating higher than the president's. -- Jodi Kantor
Regardless of what our national credit rating is, people will always want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, fuel for their cars, and clothes on their backs. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Your customers are judging every aspect of every transaction and rating everything, from friendliness of people to ease of doing business to quality of product to service after the sale. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn't do the only job they're supposed to have, the only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products. -- Al Franken
I might be popular, but that is not sufficient in a parliamentary democracy set-up. One has to assess every chief minister, his success and rating in terms of how far he has succeeded in developing his colleagues. -- Sharad Pawar
On any measure, Spain's bank rescue has been a disaster. A hundred million euros have been added to the national debt, ten-year bonds are at a record high and the country's credit rating has been downgraded three notches. -- Daniel Hannan
It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the nation, has recognized my voting record. -- Joe Baca
Steve Jobs had something like a 90% approval rating from his employees. You hear stories about him being this short-tempered, aggressive person, which he was. But he was in the pursuit of making people around him better, so the product they created would be better. -- Ashton Kutcher
Politics thrives on simple, clean messages, something that played to Obama's advantage in 2008. Stagnant unemployment and the loss of America's AAA rating are as simple and tough as they come. This is the economy on Obama's watch, and there's no one left to blame. -- John Sununu
I mean, it's pretty disillusioning for all of us right now, and we feel pretty helpless when Congress, their approval rating is thirteen percent, and across the board, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, you sort of want to walk in and fire everybody. -- Christopher Cross
I'm the treasurer of the state of Ohio, where, when the United States credit rating was downgraded for the first time in American history, and 14 government funds around the country were downgraded, we earned the highest rating we could earn on our $4 billion investment fund. -- Josh Mandel
Defaulting on the nation's debt would be cataclysmic. The U.S. Treasury's Aaa rating is the one constant in the world's financial system. When times are bad anywhere on the planet, global investors flock to Treasury bonds because they know they will get their money back. -- Mark Zandi
We have got this Damocles' sword of Standard and Poor's hanging over us, with the commitment they have made to review Britain's credit rating in the summer of 2010 after the general election. Everybody in Britain has a vital interest in ensuring that the triple A credit rating agency is maintained. -- Philip Hammond
Debt, we've learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains - pick your favorite: bankers, regulators, central bankers, politicians, overzealous consumers, credit rating agencies - but all require one similar ingredient to create a true crisis: too much leverage. -- Andrew Ross Sorkin
The U.S. has a law on the books called the debt limit, but the name is misleading. The debt limit started in 1917 for the purpose of facilitating more national debt, not reducing it. It still serves that purpose. It's unconnected to spending, hurts our credit rating and has been an abject failure at limiting debt. -- David Malpass
To serve as prime minister while being too mindful of the approval rating is like serving as a prime minister on a roller coaster. What is important, I believe, is that I really act on promises that I make and leave results. Leave a track record and show that to the Japanese public, who will, at the end of the day, I hope, appreciate it. -- Shinzo Abe
Television will do anything for a rating... anything! -- Paddy Chayefsky
Today, credit rating agencies rate companies, countries and bonds. -- Mike Fitzpatrick
Grades are a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation. -- Alfie Kohn
Junk bonds prove there's nothing magical in a Aaa bond rating. -- Merton Miller
I never personally name anyone. I am not comfortable rating other drivers. -- Mario Andretti
Campo, as everyone in chess recognized, had a 2600 rating as a politician. -- Raymond Keene
Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. -- Jonathan Swift
Michigan is also the only industrial state that has a AAA credit rating. -- John Engler
It's unrated, which means it's too confusing to possibly put a rating on. -- John Cena
We are upgrading UEX to a Buy rating; new CEO Roger Lemaitre changes everything. -- David Talbot
I do have very strong, very conflicted feelings about rating systems and social media. -- Rashida Jones
[Donald Trump] gets a 19 percent higher approval rating than [Hillary Clinton] does ,among military members. -- Eric Bolling
I don't want my album coming out with a 'G' rating. Nobody would buy it. -- Donny Osmond
Potatoes have such a high GI rating; it's almost the same as eating table sugar. -- Al Sears
The only women I publicly date are those who have a higher IMDB rating than me. -- Zach Braff
I have no problems with the NC-17 rating. I want more NC-17 films. More adult cinema! -- Tilda Swinton
Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language's most offensive C-word. -- John Oliver
The only time to believe any kind of rating is when it shows you at the top. -- Bob Hope
You need an R rating because without one, you can't advertise and the film won't get shown -- Tobe Hooper
Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man. -- Samuel Johnson
Talking about Korea, it has pretty high capital ratios at banks and maintains a good credit rating. -- Lee Myung-bak
A loach can't emulate a goldfish. Because of my looks, the public support rating for us won't rise. -- Yoshihiko Noda
I think my beard (in 'Drag Me To Hell') is getting a better IMDb rating than I am. -- Dileep Rao
The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence. -- Mohamed El-Erian
It's like this, by not giving my album a classic rating, you diminish your magazine's credibility. And that's real. -- Kanye West
There are two things you will never be without: One is your reputation and the other is your credit rating. -- Larry Winget
If California ever developed a vineyard rating system, Saxum's James Berry Vineyard would be classified as one of the best. -- Robert M. Parker, Jr.
A movie that gets a PG-13 rating can show someone running down a street killing 27 people. And there are no repercussions. -- Guy Pearce
He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber. -- Al Franken
Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality. -- Garrison Keillor
In a landscape where a 2.8 [demo rating] keeps you on the air, you can maintain that just by treating your fans with respect. -- Billy Lawrence
I never thought I'd miss Nancy Reagan. There can't be a rating [on the Clinton drug policy] when there hasn't been a performance. -- Charles Rangel
Unless a player has an 'understanding chess' rating of at least 2400, the amount of significant knowledge that he can impart on others is limited. -- Edmar Mednis
I'm not going to go mystery shopping in the NHS because we have a million people every day using it and rating its facilities. -- Andrew Lansley
A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president's popularity rating by at least 30 points. It is especially useful during election years and economic downturns. -- Chaz Bufe
I'm very comfortable with an R-rating. I feel like it sounds like what people talk like in real life; I think it's more real to me. -- David Dobkin
I like what I like and not what I'm supposed to like because of mass rating. And I very much dislike the things I don't like. -- Erle Stanley Gardner
The world is filled with terrible things that can influence children, and movies have depicted them since time immemorial. Should every terrible thing warrant an R-rating? -- Marshall Herskovitz
Who knows if John McCain could have won that presidential campaign [2008] in any circumstances when George W. Bush the outgoing Republican president had a 22 percent approval rating. -- Rachel Maddow
Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's a truly dangerous influence on our children. -- Marshall Herskovitz
We have new rules that give shareholders the ability to vote on executive compensation. We have new rules for asset-backed securities. We have new rules around credit rating agencies. -- Mary Schapiro
President Bush delivered his first State of the Union address, riding high on an 82-percent approval rating, and with Attorney General John Ashcroft dispatching agents to interview the other 18 percent. -- Jon Stewart
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Side note to parents: Anyone who thinks 'Dude, Where's My Car' is more appropriate for children than 'American Pie' because it obtained a PG-13 rating needs to stop trusting the MPAA. -- James Berardinelli
The concentration of all seven behind the stroke should be so strong that you know by feel when that stroke has varied his style or rating without the cox announcing it. -- Phillip Thomas
The critic is actually describing a conscious representation of their interaction with the wine, and therefore the score of rating is a property of that interaction and not the wine itself -- Jamie Goode
The rating [of "Aquarius"] was eventually brought down to 16 after the third appeal. Everything blew up after the second appeal because the press picked it up and spurred suspicions of persecution. -- Sonia Braga
I'm torn. I want an 'R' (rating) because we can get a lot of cool scenes into it, but then I like the idea of younger girls being able to see it. -- Emily Browning
When you look at a Congress that has an 84 percent disapproval rating, that means that for the most part, the people of this country, and certainly California, are looking for new leadership. -- Elizabeth Emken
I don't think an NC-17 rating is the kiss of death. Nor do I think that, in the hands of the right filmmakers, studios have a preconceived notion to pass on NC-17 material. -- Steve Tisch
The president is not doing well with African Americans. His popularity rating - his approval rating - with blacks: two percent. Two percent. That is somewhere between Mark Fuhrman and sickle cell anemia. -- Bill Maher
The greatest development after age 21 was shown by Steinitz, who increased his rating by more than a full class interval. Steinitz was the deep student and fierce competitor to the end of his career. -- Arpad Elo
Torbjorn (Hansen, Magnus Carlsen's first teacher) himself went from 2104 to 2204 in rating during the year he trained with Magnus. This reflects the experience I have had. One learns nearly as much from teaching others. -- Simen Agdestein
["Aquarius"] it had a bit of a rocky arrival in cinemas because we were given the 18+ rating, which did not make any sense in terms of the Brazilian rating system for a film like this. -- Sonia Braga
[On gender-rating by insurance companies:] They say the reason they get to charge more is we have children. I would say having children is a socially useful act. Being female is not a preexisting condition. -- Gloria Steinem

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