Preferential Quotes

#1. Net neutrality is the idea that Internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all traffic that goes through their networks the same, not offering preferential treatment to some websites over others or charging some companies arbitrary fees to reach users.

Marvin Ammori

#2. It was left to the Progressive movement in America (as to the Fabians in Britain) to promote eugenics, Prohibition, dietary fads, the compulsory sterilisation of those they deemed 'unfit', and preferential treatment in immigration law of 'Nordic' (and preferably Protestant) immigrants.

Markham Shaw Pyle

#3. All the human beings I met were either sure that there would be no afterlife or else that they would get preferential treatment in the hereafter.

Philip Jose Farmer

#4. The pretty girls get all the good stuff. Oh, God. So not true. I unlearned this after years of coaching beautiful clients. Yes, these lovelies get preferential treatment in most life scenarios, but there's a catch: While everyone's looking at them, virtually no one sees them.

Martha Beck

#5. Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises.

Egon Friedell

#6. The basis of our preferential option for the poor to say: I accompany them not because they are all good, or because I am all good, but because God is good.

Paul Farmer

#7. There are few talents so richly rewarded - especially in politics and the media - as the ability to portray parasites as victims, and portray demands for preferential treatment as struggles for equal rights.

Thomas Sowell

#8. When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.

Thomas Sowell

#9. I'm not in favor of the government mandating a prayer in school because our country was founded on the fact that no particular religious faith would have ascendance over or preferential treatment over any other.

Jimmy Carter

#10. Preferential affirmative action patronizes American blacks, women, and others by presuming that they cannot succeed on their own. Preferential affirmative action does not advance civil rights in this country.

Alan Keyes

#11. I do not have an issue with specific countries or companies; what I'm interested in are schemes which allow for preferential treatment, for selectivity ... If this has to change, it's countries that will have to change this.

Margrethe Vestager

#12. Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.

Timothy Ferriss

#13. Stereotypes are the mind's shorthand for dealing with complexities. They have two aspects: they are much blunter than reality; they are shaped to fit a man's preferences or prejudgments. Thus two principles are involved: differentiation or its lack, and biased preferential perception.

Robert E Lane

#14. If I see anything remotely like a telcom-run faster internet that you have to pay more to get preferential traffic on, I'm out folks. I've seen this story before, I ran an ISP back in the late 90s.

Drew Curtis

#15. President Obama has regularly granted special access to reporters who give him preferential coverage.

Ben Shapiro

#16. I have asked the secretary of the treasury to report by April 1 on whether present tax laws may be stimulating in undue amounts the flow of American capital to the industrial countries abroad through special preferential treatment.

John F. Kennedy

#17. Oh," she said, in a very different way. "Well. Thanks for my part in the compliment. Naturally I'd love to be watched and controlled, but I think I may be washing my hair that day.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#18. I think the Internet is absolutely extraordinary. It's very, very useful and I think one of the things we've got to do is make sure that the African continent gets on to that information super highway.

Thabo Mbeki

#19. It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

Henry A. Kissinger

#20. When I was at home I was in a better place

William Shakespeare

#21. Everybody's got a story that could break your heart.

Amanda Marshall

#22. Nothing belongs to you or me. Nothing belongs. Everything, everything, everything simply IS.

Mooji

#23. I like sex for breakfast, kid. I eat early and often.

Karen Marie Moning

#24. Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do it. Cops do it.

Ronald Perelman

#25. She saw that he couldn't live in a way other than the one he thought was right, and when he saw what the right thing was, like now, he cared about it as if it were the only thing that mattered.

Matthew Thomas

#26. The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.

Stanley Tucci

#27. In both England and the United States, he observed, the contemporary trend was to treat mourning as morbid self-indulgence, and to give social admiration to the bereaved who hide their grief so fully that no one would guess anything had happened.

Joan Didion

#28. I get a standing ovation just standing

George Burns