Dee Hock Quotes

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.

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• I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Government
  • Easy

• I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.

  

  Nate Silver
  • New
  • New York
  • Week

• From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Book
  • Age
  • Wine

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Different
  • Way
  • Focus

• I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • People
  • Me
  • College

• I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Time
  • Work
  • Real

• My given name was Zahra, which is the 'flower of the desert.' I don't look anything like the flower of the desert. My name was changed by my grandfather to Iman, which means 'have faith.' And it meant to have faith that a daughter would come.

  

  Iman
  • Faith
  • Daughter
  • Flower

• The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • True
  • Christian
  • Religion

• Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Universe

• It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Long
  • Marriage

• I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • School
  • Parents
  • Strong

• One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Death
  • Reputation

• I'm a normal person and I don't have superpowers! I do normal things, too.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Person
  • Normal
  • Superpowers

• I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Heart
  • Want
  • Me

• I love Kate Winslet, Rachel Weisz, Maggie Smith and Judi Dench as well. They're all wonderful and they're very inspiring.

  

  Zoe Tapper
  • Love
  • Wonderful
  • Very

• Music is the biggest tool of revolution - the best way to reach out to the youth and involve them. If you can't contribute to the world with your art, I don't see the meaning of life.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• My efforts are focused on ensuring that CERN maintains a leading role in the fields of science, technology and education, and that it continues to be a place that unites scientists from around the world.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • World
  • Science
  • Education

• In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Book
  • Author

• I wouldn't say I'm against same-sex marriage. I believe in freedom and equality for all people. I believe that when it comes to gay marriage, that's a political and legal issue that has to be dealt with in that arena. I have privately held beliefs, but when it comes to that, it's properly placed in the political and legal arena.

  

  Bernice King
  • People
  • Believe
  • Political

• When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years.

  

  Jacques Pepin
  • People
  • Book
  • Friends

• Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

  

  John Wooden

• You see my tears, in the rain underneath it all, we're just the same.

  

  Machine Gun Kelly
  • Tears
  • Rain

• Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.

  

  Dee Hock
  • People
  • Mind
  • Money