#numbers

If you look at who drives the box office numbers at these films, it's men. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#box office #drives #films #look #men

Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and cut taxes, for example. You must be honest about the numbers, since our annual deficit now exceeds all discretionary spending combined. ↗

— Brian Baird

#annual #balance #budget #combined #contradictory

For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me. ↗

— Daniel Baldwin

#addict #am #before #call #cell

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#colours #elegant #feature #flight #flowers

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#because #between #conceivably #counting #discontinuity

I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose. ↗

— Paul Begala

#bill clinton #clinton #comfortable #final #going

As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#co-operation #complex #elements #employ #experimentation

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#art form #audience #could #extraordinary #film

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. ↗

— James Thurber

#else #numbers #safety

Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today. ↗

— Angela Davis

#couple #decades #evolved #increasing #itself