Carlisle Floyd
Carlisle Floyd

It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.

Christopher A. Wray
Christopher A. Wray

Every time I attend an FBI graduation for new agents or new analysts at Quantico, a significant number of those graduates are former state and local officers, and I have the privilege of shaking their hands, presenting them with their credentials, and welcoming them to the FBI family.

Cyrus Broacha
Cyrus Broacha

I have the right credentials to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha.

Daniel Mallory Ortberg
Daniel Mallory Ortberg

My credentials, briefly: I no longer go to church or believe in God, but I can still name every one of the fruits of the Spirit and reeled for days upon hearing the announcement that Audio Adrenaline was reunited with one of the singers from DC Talk.

David Stras
David Stras

I find it hard to believe that Senators or the American public will classify Sotomayor as unqualified, particularly given the thin credentials of many of our eighteenth and nineteenth century Supreme Court Justices.

Dawn Steel
Dawn Steel

There's no training for the business, no credentials necessary to enter... It's all about entrepreneurs, innate street intelligence, and instincts. It's a business which encourages people with dreams. That's the essence of Hollywood.

Denise Dresser
Denise Dresser

When former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari passed the torch to Zedillo, he knew that economic difficulty lay ahead but believed that the Yale-trained economist's impeccable technical credentials would be enough to maintain Mexico's stability.

Dick Strawbridge
Dick Strawbridge

All insulation is environmentally friendly. Some installation has better environmental credentials, but what matters is the energy it saves.

Dinesh D'Souza
Dinesh D'Souza

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

Dixie Lee Ray
Dixie Lee Ray

I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events.