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Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

Breaking up is a natural evolution
when you try to figure out what you want in life.
If you're with an individual
who isn't moving in the same direction
and at the same rate that you are,
it ain't going to work.
- Usher Raymond

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber,
if he has common sense on the ground floor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
- Edward Appleton

The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
- Irving Fisher

Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife.
Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life.
But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways,
We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days.
Hearts full of youth,
Hearts full of truth,
Six parts gin to one part vermouth.
- Tom Lehrer - song: Bright College Days,
album: An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer

The future is something which everyone reaches at the
rate of 60 minutes an hour,
whatever he does, whoever he is.
- C. S. Lewis

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability
to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time
and still retain the ability to function.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.
So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
- William Faulkner

We class schools into four grades: leading school,
first-rate school, good school and school.
- Evelyn Waugh

We are the safest large city in America,
but any crime rate is too high.
- Michael Bloomberg

Well, we're just now seeing the reductions in mortgage rates.
The mortgage rates are based on the ten-year rate and
the Fed controls the overnight or the shorter rates.
- Franklin Raines

Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as
evidence that a population is below its optimum.
- Garrett Hardin

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry.
He is never late.
He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
- Arnold Bennett

At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear.
It's going to be pretty violent.
- Edward James Olmos

The rate of population growth in the United States
is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.
- Emanuel Celler

Man tends to increase at a greater rate
than his means of subsistence.
- Charles Darwin

We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those
northwestern forests for perpetuity.
The unemployment rate has gone not up,
but down.
The economy has gone up.
- Bruce Babbitt

Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person,
is immoral and oppressive.
- Auberon Herbert

As a result of the current universal benefit,
the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%.
Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%.
- Steve Israel

The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate,
is just one example of the products under development
that will help increase our energy independence.
- Dan Lipinski

Not only was it that I surprised people by beating Bret Hart,
but it was a great match.
They still rate it as one of the best wrestling matches of all time.
- Owen Hart

We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate.
I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and technical education,
we are going to increase the dropout rate.
- Michael Enzi

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate
truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
- B. C. Forbes

During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate
go down to a level of rest,
twice that of deep sleep.
- Mike Love

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality
rate is one hundred percent.
- R. D. Laing

Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection,
sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys.
That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women.
- Stephen Lewis

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction.
All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing
at them when their birth rate fell off.
- Benito Mussolini

Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country,
I rate him nowhere.
- Sophocles

Recent studies have revealed that children 8-10 years
old are being diagnosed with Type II diabetes,
high cholesterol, and high blood pressure at an alarming rate.
- Lee Haney

The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration.
Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade.
- Nils-Axel Morner

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
- Thomas J. Watson

The latest scientific assessment has almost doubled
the predicted rate of warming if no changes are made.
- Donella Meadows

The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has,
and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
- Randall Terry

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive.
The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions
in 40 developing nations.
- Philip Emeagwali

Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate
is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.
- Richard E. Grant

It is a fact that, if I single out Germany,
our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.
- Angela Merkel

If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent
at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year,
or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain.
- William Vickrey

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative,
which is indispensable for first-rate performances.
- Franz Liszt

We will see the increasingly rapid rate of growth we've
already been seeing in Colorado continue.
- John Hickenlooper

The loyalty rate isn't that high.
I could have a big hit, then put out the next single,
and they say, Oh yeah, who are you? Prove it again.
- Lenny Kravitz

My patient population has a low recidivism rate,
but if they haven't made up their minds that it is permanent,
then of course, they will fail.
- Robert Atkins

All new states are invested, more or less,
by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always
in favor of rash and extreme measures,
but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
- Sam Houston

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
- Norman Ralph Augustine

Time is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the
rate of thought and feeling.
- John Draper

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous.
Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise,
I want to help in any way possible.
- Shannon Miller

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.
- Henry W. Kendall

If I had a plot that was all set in advance,
why would I want go through the agony of writing the
novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery,
for me at any rate.
- Chaim Potok

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace,
or at any rate less consciously so.
- Fredrik Bajer

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
- Jean de la Bruyere

You live and learn.
At any rate, you live.
- Douglas Adams

Today, credit rating agencies rate companies,
countries and bonds.
- Mike Fitzpatrick

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people
that you really like the sound of.
- Bryan Ferry

We will attract more people to Kentucky by lowering our income tax rate.
In fact, lowering the income tax rate is the single
most important thing we can do to create opportunity.
- Ernie Fletcher

Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition.
I'll let everyone else worry about championships.
I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
- Larry Dixon

Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's
art industry as a core reason for visiting.
- Gavin Newsom

The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon.
If anything, competition in most industries will probably
speed up even more in the next few decades.
- John P. Kotter

It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal
immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.
- John Linder

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life,
or at any rate no man understands a deep book,
until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
- Ezra Pound

But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.
- Gerald Finzi

The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.
- William Weld

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
- Agnes de Mille

You might lose your spontaneity and,
instead of composing first-rate Gershwin,
end up with second rate Ravel.
- Maurice Ravel

If you take out the killings, Washington actually has
a very very low crime rate.
- Marion Berry

I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff,
but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation,
who would say, We really love this song.
- Paul McCartney

Government does not create wealth.
The major role for the government is to create an environment
where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.
- George W. Bush

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England,
above the national average.
- Patrick J. Kennedy

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people,
but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.
- Andre Weil

Despite our high rate of unemployment,
300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the
unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result
of technological progress.
- Kim Campbell

I think playing solo is a second rate activity,
really.
For me, playing is about playing with other people.
- Derek Bailey