James Sinegal Quotes

Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.

James Sinegal

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• I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Music
  • Cool
  • Couple

• I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Beauty

• The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and your environment work together to produce the person you are.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Work
  • Together
  • Nature

• Folks like me have to feel a little indebted to the communities that they came from. And if they do, I think we'll start to see a little bit more of a geographic integration in the country because people will start to think, 'You know what? I owe that place something, and I should return to it in one form or another.'

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Country
  • Me

• Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Nothing
  • Happens
  • Inevitable

• You can't fake being able to cook well.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • You
  • Fake
  • Cook

• To me, the most romantic gesture is a quiet night with my girl. I like to cook for her. I'm a meat eater and a griller - I do steaks, I do chicken, I do fish. I have a broad palate!

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Night
  • Girl
  • Me

• We have held forums here at the White House on workplace flexibility, and the first major bill signed into law by President Obama was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Lilly was here a few weeks ago because we were trying very hard to push paycheck fairness through the Congress. Unfortunately, we fell two votes short.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Trying
  • House
  • Law

• In China, I had my body lit on fire. And in Russia, I took a bath in reindeer blood, which apparently had some kind of youth-enhancing elements.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Body
  • Fire
  • Blood

• My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Up
  • Great
  • Kids

• I'd never played a character as long as I played Poussey. Spending time with her, so much time embodying that character, it was so - and still is and always will be - so special to me and a part of who I am.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Character
  • Special
  • Played

• The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Strong
  • Shadow

• Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Good
  • Country
  • Real

• Works which endure come from the soul of the people. The mighty in their pride walk alone to destruction. The humble walk hand in hand with providence to immortality. Their works survive.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • People
  • Soul
  • Alone

• American politicians who dwell on American exceptionalism only dishonor us by suggesting we play dumb to our past.

  

  Jay Parini
  • American
  • Past
  • Dumb

• It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • World
  • Justice
  • Charity

• Viv had this kind of stage presence where you couldn't ignore it. He walked onstage, he looked dangerous. You just didn't know what he was going to do.

  

  Neil Innes
  • Ignore

• From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.

  

  Jared Polis
  • American
  • America

• Fallen man is free to choose what he desires, but because his desires are only wicked he lacks the moral ability to come to Christ. As long as he remains in the flesh, unregenerate, he will never choose Christ. He cannot choose Christ precisely because he cannot act against his own will. His fall is so great that only the effectual grace of God working in his heart can bring him to faith.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Great
  • God
  • Long

• My parents weren't very strict. They've always trusted me to be independent and make my own decisions. There wasn't really anything to rebel against.

  

  Lily-Rose Depp
  • Parents
  • Independent
  • Rebel

• My enemy said to me, 'Love your enemy.' And I obeyed him and loved myself.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Enemy

• I was in martial arts starting at the age of 14, and I got my black belt by the time I was 18. Soon after, I was teaching an entire school, with about 150 students. It was unbelievably intense because of the self-awareness part of becoming a black belt.

  

  Brad D. Smith
  • Time
  • School
  • Age

• I trust and use RakEM for my private messages and calls. Other messengers collected metadata about who I messaged, when and where - RakEM does not collect metadata, encrypts local files, and uses the strongest end-to-end encryption around.

  

  John McAfee
  • Trust

• Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.

  

  James Sinegal