Peter Landesman

Writing' is the wrong way to describe what happens to words in a movie. First, you put down words. Then you rehearse them with actors. Then you shoot the words. Then you edit them. You cut a lot of them, you fudge them, you make up new ones in voice-over. Then you cut it and throw it all away.

American Director

Liz Kendall

When Labour loses we do one of three things. We decide we didn't win because we weren't leftwing enough: fantasy. We decide we can avoid the really tough decisions because they are too uncomfortable: a fudge. Or we decide that winning is too important.

British Politician

James Lovelock

Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.

English Scientist

Gareth Southgate

I didn't like it as a player when I felt a coach was fudging the reasons for leaving me out. As a player, I wanted to know where I was lacking in my game and where I could improve in order to get back in the team.

English Athlete

Hugh Jackman

I'm always very nervous about the word 'dancer' next to my name because anyone who's really trained in dance will go, 'This guy's fudging so badly.

Australian Actor

Ryan Holiday

If you need to fudge the facts a little bit to make your narrative work, there is nothing anyone can do to stop you.

American Author

Tommy Cooper

My wife said, 'Take me in your arms and whisper something soft and sweet.' I said, 'chocolate fudge.

British Comedian

Dianne Feinstein

Yes, I support the death penalty. It is an issue that cannot be fudged or hedged.

American Politician

Paul Bettany

You can fudge a lot as an actor, but you can't fudge being a parent.

English Actor

Seymour Hersh

I can't fudge what I write. But I can certainly fudge what I say.

American Journalist

Use 'fudge' to refer to sweets in casual settings, like at family gatherings or sweet shops.

Dessert Context

'Fudge' as a sweet originates from the US, which can reflect American culinary culture.

American Origin

Know 'fudge' can be combined with many flavors, like nuts, fruit, or different kinds of chocolate.

Variety of Flavors

Use 'fudge' as a verb when people intentionally don't give straight answers.

Avoiding Topics

'Fudge' implies a negative feeling towards someone not being clear or direct.

Evasive Connotation

The verb 'fudge' is informal, more common in spoken language or casual writing.

Informal Speech

'Fudge' is used for manipulating information, often considered unethical in academic contexts.

Academic Dishonesty

It implies disapproval and suspicion towards the altered information.

Negative Implication

Using 'fudge' for actions means being dishonest to gain advantage or hide failure.

Deceptive Actions

 the government, and if the government isn't transparent, then the people aren't going to be transparent either, but also that we're blaming the little guy who doesn't pay his taxes, and we're not recognizing that everyone's fudging things all over the world, including some extremely respected businesses, and I'll give you one example.

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 system is that drivers don't take these seriously at all they often call their logs their comic books or their coloring books or their swindle sheets and it's well known that drivers pretty rampantly fudged their logs right and that makes sense there are a lot of contingencies on the road sometimes trips just take

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 And that's true. And you know, a lot of people try to fudge this question, and give answers like this. I don't agree with those answers. I think they basically don't work. I think it's true, that we will face a dilemma in this respect. We will have to decide whether to have a low birth rate, or a high death rate.

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 over but we can still benefit from cheating at a low degree as long as it doesn't change our impressions about ourselves we call this like a personal fudge factor now how would you test a personal fudge factor initially we said what can we do to shrink the fudge factor so we got people to the lab and

Our buggy moral code PIPE...

 that there's a level of cheating we can't go over but we can still benefit from cheating at a low degree as long as it doesn't change our impressions about ourselves we call this like a personal fudge factor now how would you test a personal fudge factor initially we said

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 and others believe their fraud is victimless, perhaps even planning to return the money once their crisis is resolved. Some of the most common types of fraud don't even register as such to the perpetrator. Examples include employees fudging time sheets or expense reports,

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 as long as it doesn't change our impressions about ourselves. We call this like a personal fudge factor. Now, how would you test a personal fudge factor? Initially we said, what can we do to shrink the fudge factor? So, we got people to the lab, and we said,

Why we think it's OK to...

 false pay great whites put on a show as they go after a seal decoy being pulled by a boat if humans are lima beans to sharks then seals are a double hot fudge ice cream sundae with three cherries on top

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 who said that Bobby didn't like me and didn't want me at his party. And that day, my mom took me to the zoo and out for a hot fudge sundae. When I was in seventh grade,

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 in the structure and you see i can tell you quite honestly that we didn't fudge the broken columns and the facade by calculation coincide almost exactly with those that