John Battelle Quotes

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John Battelle

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• Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Culture
  • Class
  • Conservative

• I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Reputation
  • Would
  • Further

• The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Music
  • Moment
  • Start

• I remember back in the early days of Microsoft that from the day that you decided that you were just going to put out an ad to a customer - and all you were usually able to tell them was that a new product was available - it was about nine months before you could actually reach the first customer.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Remember
  • Day
  • Customer

• Every celebrity in the world, if their movie bombs or whatever, they hold their kid up on a magazine and say, 'I'm really a dad.'

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • World
  • Movie

• In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Society
  • Peace
  • Trust

• The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Money
  • American
  • Energy

• I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Bad
  • Run
  • Superhero

• I want people to tell me the truth.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • People
  • Truth
  • Me

• I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Song

• With all the auditions you do, there is a lot of rejection you have to take as well. You get used to that.

  

  Olivia DeJonge
  • You
  • Rejection
  • Take

• When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • People
  • Dying
  • Start

• I think that cinema and the arts are central in our lives because we grow up and learn about the world through our exposure to stories. Parents use them as a tool to teach their children fundamental truths and values, much as adults can view them to gain exposure to cultures and individuals that they'd never be able to view in their own lives.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Up
  • World
  • Children

• As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Great
  • Children
  • Hope

• Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.

  

  Vera Rubin
  • Different
  • Question
  • Sex

• In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children.

  

  Oliver North
  • World
  • Children
  • Book

• People don't talk to me the way they would other people. They kind of look at me, but they never come over. It makes me feel like there's something wrong with me.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • People
  • Way
  • Kind

• All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.

  

  Amar Bose
  • Power
  • Military

• I can't sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • TV

• The softest of stuff in the world, penetrates quickly the hardest, insubstantial, it enters where there is no room.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Stuff
  • Room
  • Enters

• Whenever I sing 'Total Eclipse of the Heart,' the way people sing along with me still excites me. It's one of the songs that audiences know all the lyrics to, and they sing along with me, and it makes me so happy. People also know my songs 'Holding out for a Hero' and 'Lost in France,' and this gives me so much joy on stage.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
  • People
  • Heart
  • Happy

• I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.

  

  Michael Tolkin
  • Change
  • Treats
  • Tendencies

• Google Now supplants the need to open an app by surfacing cards - cards that magically turn into just the information you need, when you need it - without having to go to an app to get it.

  

  John Battelle