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

• The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Secret
  • Being
  • Ugliness

• When families save, they can get through emergencies like a bad harvest or a medical emergency. But it's more than that. They can also plan for the future, gradually saving up for a small business or for their children's school tuition.

  

  Jeff Raikes
  • Up
  • Children
  • School

• It wasn’t always going to be morning, and darkness would come around again. The sun would rise, and then the sun would set. And there you were in the darkness again. If you didn’t whistle, the quiet and the dark would swallow you up. The thing is, I didn’t know how to whistle. I guessed I was going to have to learn.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Learn
  • Darkness
  • Swallow

• I got into wrestling to make some money, see the world, and meet girls.

  

  Bret Hart
  • Money
  • Wrestling
  • Girls

• Not only are we not using any programmed loops or computers onstage, we're also improvising with our instruments. We're playing our instruments probably more so than most people that I see play their instruments. I think we all sort of strive for that - we all want magical things to happen onstage. We don't say "mistakes" in this band, we call them "highlights."

  

  Brendan Benson
  • Mistakes
  • Strive
  • Instruments

• Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

  

  Christopher Dodd