Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe.
Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage.
A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament at Turin, seven being its fair share, calculated according to the population of the various cities and districts of the Sardinian kingdom.
I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
There will always be a measure of calculated risk-taking in manufacturing fame, especially in a deeply divided political climate.
Citizens United provided unprecedented political weaponry to big special interests. My personal view was it was calculated to do that.
I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated.
You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture. I can think of a lot of comedy screenplays; Woody Allen has had numerous nominations for his screenplays. But most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important.
I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immense a population, but we are blessed with a Constitution admirably calculated to accomplish it. Its elastic power is unequaled, which is to be attributed to its federal character.
In the media business and as a creative executive, if you don't take risks, you're dead in the water. Calculated risk taking is essential for success. No one said it was easy.
When I take a risk, I like it to be a calculated risk, meaning I make it as small as possible.
I've never been reckless - it's always calculated. I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated.
The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state.
All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths.
The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.
Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
The assumption that people sometimes make is that I have made a cold, calculated decision to put my career ahead of having family, and that's not true.
We had a couple of films that, in the course of working on them, the budget shrank to the point where we couldn't make it. They literally ran the numbers: They took our numbers and the stars' numbers, and when they calculated whether we could make our money back or not, it said no.
'The Green Lantern' seems a little calculated to me. It's like, 'We've got to get on this gay bandwagon and make this character gay.' Like anything else, there's earnest expressions in the culture and then there's kind of bandwagoning.
I'm very big into just feeling good and doing what I want; I'm not very calculated or thoughtful about my moves.
If I couldn't compete, I wouldn't ride. I don't ride for fun; I ride to prepare for the next competition, and everything that I do when I am in the saddle is always a calculated step in my path to the next win.
I'm not really calculated enough or trained enough as a musician or songwriter to create a style in order to please people. Ultimately, I just have to do what I like to do.
It's not that you can do this calculated move to try to further your career. You just follow what's in your heart, and later you look back and go, 'I was either really dumb or really smart, I can't believe I did that.'
Maybe we're kind of predisposed to think that anything a politician does is calculated and therefore suspect.
The uncertainty relation does not refer to the past; if the velocity of the electron is at first known and the position then exactly measured, the position for times previous to the measurement may be calculated.
