Dito Montiel Quotes

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• In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Strong
  • Beginning

• I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Moral
  • Religion
  • Catholic

• To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Think
  • Model
  • Better

• I always do my interviews face to face.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Always
  • Face
  • Interviews

• The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Credit

• New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • New
  • Behavior
  • Passive

• Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Want
  • Building
  • Welfare

• There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions.

  

  Rahman Baba
  • Doubt
  • Become
  • Donkey

• I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.

  

  Adam Lamberg
  • Way
  • Myself
  • Religious

• In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • May
  • Religious
  • Teach

• Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Knowledge
  • Lost
  • Information

• My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Beautiful
  • Parents
  • Myself

• We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Good
  • History
  • Guilt

• My dad wanted me to play football so bad, he took me to Washington High School on the west side of Atlanta because they were number one. They never lost.

  

  Young Thug
  • Dad
  • Play
  • Football

• An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Country
  • Intelligent
  • Loyalty

• I can say without hesitation that there is certainly no greater show to be a contestant on than 'Price' - the prizes can be huge, and the whole world loves and watches the show. It's an American institution!

  

  Randy West
  • World
  • American
  • Watches

• Listen, if you don't talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don't think big, you don't get big. Some people call it egotistical, some people call it high hopes, some people call it confidence. It's all in how you want to dissect it.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • High
  • Game

• One problem with the focus on speculation is that it tends to promote the growth of the great intellectual cancer of our times: conspiracy theories.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Great
  • Focus
  • Growth

• Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.

  

  Peter Lewis Allen
  • City

• Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry. We are always in such a frantic hurry. In the light of the glory of the vision we go forth to do things, but the vision is not real in us yet; and God has to take us into the valley, and put us through fires and floods to batter us into shape, until we get to the place where He can trust us.... Let Him put you on His wheel and whirl you as He likes, and as sure as God is God and you are you, you will turn out exactly in accordance with the vision. Don't lose heart in the process.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Real
  • Heart

• And before our current legislature adjourns, we intend to become the first state of full and true choice by saying to every low and middle-income Hoosier family, if you think a non-government school is the right one for your child, you're as entitled to that option as any wealthy family; here's a voucher, go sign up.

  

  Mitch Daniels
  • Right
  • Choice
  • Become

• When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.

  

  John Updike
  • Mind

• When I had jobs, I was always doing manual jobs because I couldn't think. I worked at the docks, unloading trucks, and did ridiculous jobs.

  Dito Montiel