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Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second. -- David Hockney
There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny. -- Tom Ford
Close scrutiny will show that most 'crisis situations' are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are. -- Maxwell Maltz
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. -- Carl Sagan
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic. -- William E. Gladstone
All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans. -- Billy Bragg
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. -- Thomas Aquinas
We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation. -- Carol Bellamy
It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny. -- Andrew Lloyd Webber
If Spain goes under, Italy will come under even more scrutiny. -- Mario Monti
Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism. -- Halle Berry
No departure from the truth of nature shall be discovered by the closest scrutiny. -- Henry Peach Robinson
Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful. -- Paula Radcliffe
The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law. -- Nelson Mandela
The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you. -- Helena Bonham Carter
Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society. -- Edward Bond
I know all's fair in love and war but when you go off and try to be by yourself and it ends up on the front page of the press it's frightening, knowing your life is under such scrutiny -- Michael Hutchence
I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do. -- Andrew Bogut
As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament. -- Mario Monti
Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny - and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do). -- Stephen Jay Gould
I think it's a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I'm for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible. -- Anderson Cooper
Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, than the path must be fraught with fear. A robust faith need not fear, for if God exists, then reason cannot help but lead us to Him. Cogito, ergo Deus est,'says St. Augustine, I think, therefore God is. -- Donna Woolfolk Cross
Scrutiny has never scared me because I have had detractors all my life. -- Vijender Singh
I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas. -- Krzysztof Kieslowski
I think part of being in the public eye is getting recognized and dealing with positive and negative scrutiny. -- Tim Howard
If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it... if it doesn't stand the test of public scrutiny then don't do it. -- Ratan Tata
There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency. -- Edward Snowden
The reason so many celebrities try to keep things secret is you want the chance to get to know someone without the glare of public scrutiny. -- Jesse Metcalfe
Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions. -- Thomas Sowell
We welcome the scrutiny of the world - because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect. -- Barack Obama
This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave. -- Dee Dee Myers
But I also enjoy life... the more scrutiny I am under, the more confident I become. I am who I am. I can't do anything about it, and I love who I am. -- Khloe Kardashian
As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro. -- Eddie Redmayne
We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart. -- Saint Bernard
The no-secrets era of social media makes one consider the built-in risk factor of nominating high-testosterone men to positions of power at all. Everyone is under too much scrutiny now to take a chance on candidates who suddenly blow up into a comic meme, a punchline, a ribald hashtag. -- Tina Brown
Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And, although many concerns have been expressed about the potential for unexpected consequences, the unexpected effects that have been observed so far have been benign. -- Nina Fedoroff
Now my poor hometown is being castigated as the center of an IRS scandal. Humble workers at the Cincinnati office targeted Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations for special scrutiny when those groups applied for tax-exempt status. There's no conceivable excuse for that. It was deeply, deeply wrong. -- Gail Collins
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I loved the time I got to spend in Denver. My boys, Arin and Ryan, were growing up. I got to spend time with them without being pried upon. There was no public scrutiny. I was free and could take them to the supermarket or to the park without being noticed or looked at. -- Madhuri Dixit
The only time the private parts of someone's life are relevant is when they're affecting public performance. And just because someone is a public person doesn't mean that any part of his or her private life is open to scrutiny. If someone is doing his or her job, you have to have enough empathy to understand that we all have personal problems. -- Rudy Giuliani
Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink. -- Matthew Perry
Creativity suffers under great scrutiny from ourselves or others. -- Sark
Every presidential spouse is going to be subjected to scrutiny. -- Karl Rove
Media scrutiny is a great trademark of the American political arena. -- Duncan Hunter
Every action being taken against terrorists requires court order, requires scrutiny. -- George W. Bush
I want more rules, more scrutiny, and to defend the country. -- Ted Cruz
Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny. -- Fisher Ames
Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty. -- Richard Cushing
It's so hard to have relationships when there is so much scrutiny. -- Rosanna Arquette
Accountability and democratic choice, I deeply believe, are guaranteed by rigorous scrutiny only." -- Jemima Khan
You are physically up for scrutiny by everyone and you hear everyone's opinion. -- Karlie Kloss
Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact... -- John Burroughs
Artists are definitely, like, under a sort of microscope of scrutiny more than others. -- Natalia Kills
Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur. -- Stephen Hawking
No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code. -- Ken Thompson
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. -- Barbara Mertz
Typical reaction to scrutiny: attack and mock messenger and message, minimize the problem, hope attention dies down. -- Anat R. Admati
Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny. -- Nate Mendel
Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear. -- Chanakya
I happen to respect people who are willing to come under public scrutiny and serve their country. -- Bernie Sanders
I don't think I look like the pope's favorite Catholic - at least not under close scrutiny. -- Mary Karr
I've always been under scrutiny. But I used to just not really pay attention to what people said. -- Madonna Ciccone
Shabbat is a day of rest, of mental scrutiny and of balance. Without it the workdays are insipid. -- Hayim Nahman Bialik
I was surprised how open and unguarded the military was. I expected more scrutiny, more supervision from command. -- Sebastian Junger
People in powerful positions come under scrutiny, and sometimes they get in trouble for things that their underlings did. -- Anna Holmes
Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence. -- Emile M. Cioran
The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it. -- Colin Trevorrow
We prefer to find an explanation for why things are not perfect, and these rarely stand up to close scrutiny. -- Charlie Campbell
We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Scenes must be beautiful which daily view'd Please daily, and whose novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years. -- William Cowper
It's easier to make fun of a first lady than for a first lady to have fun. The scrutiny is ferocious. -- Suzanne Fields
The only thing you can do through all the scrutiny and just in life in general is be true to yourself. -- Vanessa Hudgens
If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny. -- Tim Ferriss
All the proffered evidence that America was attacked by Muslims on 9/11, when subjected to critical scrutiny, appears to have been fabricated. -- David Ray Griffin
The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny. -- Nathan Myhrvold
No idea is above scrutiny. No idea whatsoever. To criticize, to scrutinize and to satirize my own religion [Islam] is not Islamophobia. -- Maajid Nawaz
I think every program needs to stand the sunshine of righteous scrutiny. Whether it's Social Security, whether it's Medicaid, whether it's Medicare. -- Rick Perry
Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one. -- Matthew Henry
The things the Bible says, they're all true. The teachings the Bible tells, they all firmly stand under every manner of scrutiny. -- Justin Steckbauer
I found, and find, the scrutiny of Dr. Lecter uncomfortable, intrusive, like the humming of your thoughts when they x-ray your head. -- Thomas Harris
I was able to grow up and do silly things and have a life with only a small amount of public scrutiny. -- Keisha Castle-Hughes
Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone ... -- Margaret Halsey
The Clintons believe they're under more scrutiny than anybody's ever been, but because of the way they do things they invite that scrutiny. -- Rush Limbaugh
When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government. -- Jacob K. Javits
Thoughtful criticism and close scrutiny of all government officials by the press and the public are an important part of our democratic society. -- Jimmy Carter
There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by. -- George VI
In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept especially close regulatory scrutiny of their risk-taking. -- Ben Bernanke
There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use. -- E. M. Forster
Why is a woman's sexuality always under so much scrutiny? Why can't she do exactly what she please without being called a million things? -- Christina Aguilera
I didn't pay close enough scrutiny to some of the other things that Louis Farrakhan was saying, that's something I just live and learn. -- Keith Ellison
Teens look at cause-related efforts with some scrutiny. They know they are often a target market, but it has to make sense to them. -- Nancy Lublin
If you decide to become a political actor, then the things that you say and you do become subject of public scrutiny and comment. -- Karl Rove
Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity. -- Grover Cleveland
Open platforms historically undergo a lot of scrutiny, but there are a lot of advantages to having an open source platform from a security standpoint. -- Sundar Pichai
When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies, and the American people. -- John O. Brennan
When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny? -- Sydney J. Harris
Lives that are so conspicuous have a claustrophobic feeling. Once you're in charge of running a country, you're under scrutiny all the time. That's a trap. -- Kathryn Harrison
Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate. -- Jack Canfield
We keep the terrorist threat to the United Kingdom under very careful scrutiny. We think it's right to keep the public informed about the general threat level. -- David Miliband
No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or opposition and both are necessary. -- John F. Kennedy
[Donald] Trump continues to dismiss those concerns though, even as some Republicans, like Lindsay Graham, are making the case that Trump`s business ties deserve the scrutiny. -- Chuck Todd
The presence of another person derails my thoughts; I dream of the other's presence with a strange absent-mindedness that no amount of my analytical scrutiny can define. -- Fernando Pessoa
Would-be drug companies must either produce medicines that stand up to federal scrutiny, demonstrate that their data has value to other companies, or go out of business. -- Alex Berenson
From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny. -- Walter Smith
Everything I do is under scrutiny. And one of the things different, I think, about me is that my life has been a very, very open book. -- Donald Trump
There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be who they are in history. -- Bernard Hopkins
You perform the thing that you made, that's inside of you, and to subject that to any kind of scrutiny is terrifying. It's still terrifying to me. -- Lola Kirke
Such a courageous boy I was. To act brazenly under scrutiny and risk further injury to my wounded heart. Ah, the resilience, the blind, dumb persistence of youth. -- Meg Rosoff
I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities laid open to it. -- Jean Baptiste Massillon
The power of 'Madame Bovary' stems from Flaubert's determination to render each object of his scrutiny exactly as it looks, or sounds or smells or feels or tastes. -- Kathryn Harrison
My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost childâ??wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry. -- Virginia Woolf
U.S. surveillance of Pakistan extends far beyond its nuclear program. There are several references in the black budget to expanding U.S. scrutiny of chemical and biological laboratories. -- Barton Gellman
The whole [of religion] is a riddle, an Ã¦nigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the onlyresult of our most accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject. -- David Hume
I think we need to grow in our self-assurance that is not scared of being challenged, that the truth we uphold can stand up to the closest possible scrutiny. -- Desmond Tutu
We really just try not to think about the scrutiny and the pressure. We're just trying to make the show that we like, and we're working really hard at it. -- Maurissa Tancharoen
Somebody's got to do it [being Donald Trump]. It's different. It's difficult. There are a lot of wonderful things about it, but always being under scrutiny isn't one of them. -- Donald Trump
Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to protect the country from enemies. -- Noam Chomsky
A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital. -- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
By the time of the '90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny that Alfred P. Sloan could never have imagined. -- James Surowiecki
By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct. -- Edgar Allan Poe

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