Advantage Quotes

"Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start"

Jonathan Kozol, Writer

"The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine"

Will Wright, Scientist

"Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together"

Chad Smith, Musician

"The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense"

Bruce Henderson, Businessman

"In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people... now her ripened reason gave to her present study at least the advantage of novelty"

Charlotte Smith, Poet

"After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms"

Barry Commoner, Scientist

"Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature"

Michael P. Anderson, Astronaut

"A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment"

Liz Carpenter, Writer

"IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments"

John Patrick, Playwright

"Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law"

Olusegun Obasanjo, Statesman

"There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed"

Francis Darwin, Scientist

"You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances... their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet these same people are taking advantage of their people to use them as cheap labour"

Arlo Guthrie, Musician

"The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience"

Andre Kostelanetz, Musician

"I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage"

Joe Theismann, Athlete

"I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that"

Edward G. Robinson, Actor

"The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals"

Keith Henson, Scientist

"New Hampshire state government is a big customer for prescription drug companies. Just as businesses do, we should take advantage of the bargaining power we have as a big customer"

John Lynch, Politician

"Well, when I think of steroids I think of an image. You have the advantage over someone, which is a form of cheating. I guess it wouldn't be right unless it was legal for everybody. Reason it's not legal for everybody is because it can hurt people seriously"

Evander Holyfield, Athlete

"Bill Bradley is a serious politician and if Al Gore stumbles seriously, then Bradley is there to take advantage of that"

Tom Mann, Businessman

"What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible"

Cao Cao, Statesman

"Melanie is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it's my first baby. She gets everything easy from Papa. I am more weak. She takes advantage of me"

Antonio Banderas, Actor

"But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation"

Oscar Robertson, Athlete

"Anytime I have an idea, I'll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write an album, I don't have to dream it all out of thin air. I don't have to be creative on the spur of the moment, or spontaneously artistic. I just take advantage of whenever creativity strikes"

Neil Peart, Musician

"Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood"

Lionel Trilling, Critic

"It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark"

Larry King, Entertainer

"Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves"

Edward Bach, Scientist

"I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history"

Sidney Sheldon, Novelist

"Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are"

Werner Herzog, Director

"We live in an increasingly sophisticated world that makes it difficult to make simple comments on stuff. There are too many people on both sides of the border who are taking advantage of circumstances and the situation"

Arlo Guthrie, Musician

"Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them"

Walter Kerr, Critic

"I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it"

Herman Wouk, Novelist

"I have Tourettes and Aspergers, but Tourrets and Aspergers don't have me. You know, I'm doing what I can to suppress it and I don't let it take advantage of me. It's not who I am. You know, I'm James Durbin. Like I said in the beginning, I am here to show America who I am, and it is what it is"

James Durbin, Musician

"Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate"

Jane Kaczmarek, Actress

"Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is a right of which the Soviet Union in this case has taken full advantage"

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Politician

"It was just really, really tough getting anything when you were a female. Basically, I just took advantage of everything I could. But when people are going to flat out tell you they're not going to hire anyone that's female, there's not much you can do about it"

Shannon Lucid, Astronaut

"On certain plays and situations I feel like I have the advantage. But sometimes I just have to not think about the size of the guy in front of me"

Dante Hall, Athlete

"In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious"

Carole King, Musician

"A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy"

Abdoulaye Wade, Statesman

"Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage"

Scott Hamilton, Athlete

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