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Quotes About Scrutiny

Beyond providing some level of scrutiny of Kenyan MPs, we built Mzalendo to demonstrate that there is only so much bemoaning you can do about your representation.
~ Ory Okolloh
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
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts
~ Bergman Evans
A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
~ Bernard Malamud
The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
~ Adam Cohen
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
Women are often scrutinized when they have pets that men wouldn't have. We are immediately faulted for having the wrong kind of pet rather than anyone first think, 'Wow, she rescued an animal that would have been otherwise killed and gave them a great home - how sweet!'
~ Iliza Shlesinger
I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.
~ Camille Paglia
The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
~ Flannery O'Connor
You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me.
~ Victor Ponta
She found her regard for Mr. Winter turning to something like suspicion—though notice how often we lower suspicion upon others to avoid putting ourselves under scrutiny. Now
~ Gregory Maguire
Les célébrités : s'inquiéter du moindre détail de leur vie privée, afin de pouvoir les dénigrer.
~ Gustave Flaubert
You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.
~ Tiki Barber
It's tough, no matter how good your technology is, to police every single comment coming up.
~ Alan Patricof
Bringing anyone into royal circles is a pretty tough act. Especially in the British royal family, which is scrutinized by the press as no one's been.
~ Albert II, Prince of Monaco
It's tough being the one person on the hot seat.
~ Camille Grammer
It's a tough job being a politician.
~ Govinda
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
You're constantly asking yourself, 'Am I doing enough? Am I living up to this moment? Am I asking the toughest questions of the president to make sure we're continuing to do our job to hold him accountable for his words and his promises?'
~ Kristen Welker
I guess the argument is you chose to be in the public eye and, therefore, you're giving your life up for a certain level of scrutiny and you've got to accept that. The trade-off between being on 'Love Island' and not being on 'Love Island' is very skewed into the positive.
~ Iain Stirling
If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something? I suspect there's not an adult in the country who would walk away totally unscathed if every aspect of his or her life were investigated the way Stewart's ImClone trading was.
~ Allan Sloan
You can't let a candidate run for too long. He will be dragged along, cut apart, put back together and ripped to shreds again - from both the political opponents and the media.
~ Peer Steinbruck
Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.
~ William H. Gass