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Reviewing our fight, I asked Janco, "Why do you rhyme when you fight? -- Maria V. Snyder
Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher. -- Confucius
Reviewing a government budget is much like going through the attic in an old home. -- Rick Scott
[Reviewing a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin] The dogs were poorly supported by the cast. -- Don Herold
Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong. -- Jill Lepore
Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people. -- George Bernard Shaw
Reviewing the day's lessons. Isn't it joyful? Friends come from far. Isn't it delightful? One has never been angry at other's misunderstanding. Isn't he a respectable man? -- Confucius
Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing. -- Virgil Thomson
Reviewing books is all about coziness. It is all of it a kind of caucus race. Women review women, Jewish writers review and praise Jewish writers, blacks review blacks, etc. -- Alexander Theroux
Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in which male domination of women and children stands in the ways of love. -- bell hooks
My proudest moment was the number 'Reviewing the Situation.' I suspect that, because I gave my all to the role and because I was working with such a fine team of people, it inhibited my future career. -- Ron Moody
[Reviewing the New York City Telephone Directory] But it is the opinion of the present reviewer that the weakness of plot is due to the great number of characters which clutter up the pages. The Russian school is responsible for this. -- Robert Benchley
There is quite a lot of mutual misunderstanding between the upper middle class and the working class. Reviewing what's been said about the white working class and the Democrats, I realized that there's even a lot of disagreement about who the working class IS. -- Timothy Noah
I keep reviewing my feelings about the supernatural. -- Tony Visconti
The more disastrous the mishaps the simpler the reviewing task. -- Donal Henahan
We're reviewing everything to see how we can do it better, faster, and more efficiently. -- David Neeleman
I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance. -- Mark Millar
The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it. -- Leon Redbone
Critics who do the weekly recap, I find that kind of absurd. That's like reviewing chapters in a novel. -- Terence Winter
My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?' -- Adam McKay
I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research. -- Beth Richardson Gutcheon
After much deliberation, and after reviewing the legal, public policy and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and believe that DOMA should be repealed. -- Bob Casey, Jr.
In business, there's a constant focus on developing strategies, reviewing executive performance against those strategies each year, engaging with opposing or different points of view, and having intellectual dialogue. -- Jeff Raikes
I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time around. -- Roland Joffe
Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were new, too - started printing essays about them. -- Jill Lepore
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. -- George Orwell
This consists of a series of meetings that may last several days through which information is provided that may include reviewing documentaries, news programs, court records and certain reports about the group in question. -- Rick Ross
I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction. -- Joyce Carol Oates
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions. -- Gore Vidal
I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will not know the pleasures of the novel has been a staple of book reviewing since at least 1960. -- Russell Smith
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. And when those plants were put into operation, they were required to have double and triple redundant safety systems. -- Joe Barton
When I am there at our global product development centers, I am meeting with the design team and reviewing design work being done there and meeting with engineers responsible for work being done specific to that region, meeting with purchasing team. -- Mary Barra
Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy. -- Stu Jackson
I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage. -- Rory Bremner
Reviewing the record of American intervention in Indochina in the Pentagon Papers, one cannot fail to be struck by the continuity of basic assumptions from one administration to the next. Never has there been the slightest deviation from the principle that a noncommunist regime must be imposed and defended, regardless of popular sentiment. -- Noam Chomsky
Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews books wrote, in reviewing a study of Ruskin, that he had never read a book by Ruskin but that the study confirmed him in his belief that he didn't want to read a book by Ruskin. This man very often writes about his family life. -- George W. S. Trow
When I was writing my column, I would almost always be recognized when I was in a restaurant, even if I was reviewing it and had booked under a fake name, so free stuff would start coming out of the kitchen on a conveyer belt, fantastic wines would be opened at my table. Now I can't even get a reservation on the pizza joint on the corner. -- Toby Young
I always think upon Lee Strasberg with warmth, and reviewing his wisdom is a pleasure. -- Francis Ford Coppola
The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism. -- Henry James
One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone. -- Dante Alighieri
Leaders spend time reviewing their mistakes rather than having fantasies over their achievements! They look for every way to do the undone! -- Israelmore Ayivor
I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research. -- Beth Richardson Gutcheon
What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead. -- Fanny Fern
True leaders spend time reviewing their mistakes rather than having fantasies over their achievements! They look for every way to do the undone! -- Israelmore Ayivor
I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built." (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy) -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
After reviewing the polygraph charts in private, the polygraph examiner told me that I had passed and that he believed I had nothing to do with the anthrax letters. -- Steven Hatfill
I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those creeps and old ladies of vested reviewing. -- Norman Mailer
I did my degree in journalism, and I then went on to being a games journalist, reviewing and previewing games and writing about the industry, visiting and interviewing developers. -- Rhianna Pratchett
Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will of the people. We're bound to be "anti-majoritarian." -- Rose Bird
Clearly in my mind, I have two distinct positions - owner and manager. So I am open to reviewing my performance as a manager as any other person in Sun Pharma. -- Dilip Shanghvi
No matter what's happening in your life, you can change the trajectory of events by closing your eyes, reviewing your thought and behavior, and sending love wherever you've been withholding it. -- Marianne Williamson
In reviewing films, people get quite liberal about saying "the script" this and "the script" that, when they've never read the script any more than they've read the latest report on Norwegian herring landings. -- William Monahan
David Ray Griffin has done admirable and painstaking research in reviewing the mysteries surrounding the 9/11 attacks. It is the most persuasive argument I have seen for further investigation [into] that historic and troubling event. -- Howard Zinn

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