Christopher Dodd Quotes

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

Christopher Dodd

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• Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Mom
  • Bike
  • Never Forget

• My daughter Mira's first media experience was with the first-generation iPad more than five years ago. Her speech therapist used this with her to encourage her to talk, as she was speech delayed. I watched as she immediately navigated the iPad naturally, with such ease.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Experience
  • Daughter
  • Therapist

• Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.

  

  Babasaheb
  • May
  • Bad
  • Man

• Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Look
  • Early
  • Google

• We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • True
  • Culture
  • Over

• The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Work
  • Success
  • Guys

• My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Play
  • Singing

• I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Man
  • Study
  • Search

• The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Friend
  • Trust
  • Dark

• Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Business
  • Think
  • Change

• It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Just
  • Global
  • Sit

• The real world is far more hellish for all us than any fictional representation of it.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • World
  • Real
  • More

• I had always been a fatalist about my career. What was to be was to be.

  

  Randolph Scott
  • Career
  • Always
  • Been

• Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Joy
  • Service
  • Spirit

• It's always disappointing when your work is not received as you hope it would be.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Always

• I have to be socially aware; I feel like that's my job.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Job
  • Like
  • Feel

• The Japanese have different words for love. To them, it's plain weird that we love spaghetti and love our children and love our lovers, all with the same word, when surely the thing being described as love is radically different in each case.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Different
  • Children
  • Love

• The East Turkestan Islamic Movement, named for an old Uighur name for Xinjiang, is a shadowy group that operates largely out of Afghanistan and Pakistan and is devoted to expelling the Chinese Communist Party from northwestern China.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Party
  • Chinese
  • Name

• In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by the pleasure principle. We believe, that is to say, that the course of those events is invariably set in motion by an unpleasurable tension, and that it takes a direction such that its final outcome coincides with a lowering of that tension that is, with an avoidance of unpleasure or a production of pleasure.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Events
  • Theory
  • Mental

• When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Improve

• The long arc of history that recounts the Catholic Church's embrace of people of all faiths and none in providing health, education, and welfare in society is as incontestable as it is impressive.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • People
  • Long
  • History

• There came a time in my life when I doubted the divinity of the Scriptures, and I resolved as a lawyer and a judge I would try the Book as I would try anything in the courtroom, taking evidence for and against. It was a long, serious and profound study and using the same principles of evidence in this religious matter as I always do in secular matters, I have come to the decision that the Bible is a supernatural Book, that it has come from God, and that the only safety for the human race is to follow its teachings.

  

  Salmon Portland Chase
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• With 'Mental Jewelry,' we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to get something happening. I think we lost some of the personality in the music. 'Throwing Copper''s mission was to begin to get some of that back.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Music
  • Lost
  • Personality

• Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

  

  Christopher Dodd