Numbers Game Quotes

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime..

Any person should have enough sense to know that a PM should have public support. Numbers should be with them.

Wars, conflict, its all business. One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero. Numbers sanctify.

We spend our time bandying statistics about.

In Afghanistan, getting shot at was a regular occurrence. I viewed survival as a numbers game. As point man, every time I entered a Taliban compound first, I played the odds in my head.

Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.

One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero.

One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic

Those numbers with Tony are so often and so interesting.

I believe life is a gift, and I want to live it productively. I am not into this numbers game.

If immigration is simply seen as a numbers game, nobody will ever win that debate. The question should be: what is it we want to achieve? What do we expect of those who are arriving? What is the basic deal?

I don't even listen to the records after they come out. It's outlawed in my house. My wife and my kids can't play any of my music around me. Once it comes out, for me, it's just business. Numbers.

Actors used to concentrate on acting, but today they are businessmen, too, and think about the numbers game as well. They multi-task very well. It's admirable that they have this ability.

There are a lot of spin doctors on the economic numbers, not just politicians.

I'm not really into the numbers game of, like, what position our record is. But you find out at the end, you know? You're like 'Oh, all right! That's good!' We had a Number Three record. That's crazy! What's that about? That's exciting to me! I think that's good.

My company, Cinema Gypsy, produced a podcast, 'Bronzeville,' in conjunction with Larenz Tate and his brothers that we're developing into a television show. It deals with a very tight-knit African-American community in Chicago in 1947 and people who run a numbers wheel.

if you play the numbers game and become obsessed with it, as so many in Hollywood are, sooner or later you have to face the depressing fact that if you are number one the only place you can go is down.

It's not about me. I think people are too caught up with what I'm doing. It's just numbers. I'm trying to win.

Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us first, for they were many and we were but few.

I think I've nurtured the following that I have to the point where I can consistently do a certain type of numbers when I put a project out.

One death is a tragedy; a thousand is a statistic.

I think there's really no rhyme or reason as to what keeps a show on air. Surely it's a numbers game, but some of the best shows get canceled, and some shows where you don't totally understand why they're on the air stay on for 15 or 20 years.

Fellas, it's all a numbers game. The more women you meet, the greater chance you have of finding the right one.

It is not just willy-nilly running around. I need to fill certain spaces and make sure we are covered on both sides of the ruck and the numbers are right.