John Battelle Quotes

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• To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Integrity
  • Election
  • Nobody

• It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.

  

  Vagit Alekperov
  • Country
  • Company
  • Impossible

• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

  

  Sam Keen
  • People
  • Job
  • Society

• I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Six
  • saw
  • Pilot

• I am very much a Republican.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Republican

• If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Live
  • New York
  • Edgy

• For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.

  

  Zell Miller
  • Great
  • Freedom
  • Security

• If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Great
  • School
  • Help

• Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Wish

• You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Best
  • Always
  • Do Your Best

• I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.

  

  Odette Annable
  • People
  • Great
  • Friends

• I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Fun
  • You
  • Know

• Give the peasants neither life nor death.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Life
  • Death
  • Give

• I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Love
  • Done
  • Think

• Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Business
  • Risk
  • About

• Art is more engaging that propaganda.

  

  Larry Norman
  • Art
  • More
  • Propaganda

• If you could get all the people in the organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Time
  • Competition

• Kids and adults are treated differently on sets. Being a kid, you can get away with anything, and it looks cute. But as an adult, it's a whole new journey.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Kids
  • Journey
  • Kid

• My dad had a big influence on me, and although I was never very bright at school, I used to love philosophising with him about big universal things - and I think that's what directing is.

  

  Marianne Elliott
  • School
  • Dad

• I have never been to India and I am not a specialist on Indian culture, and I would not wish to be heard to be taking swipes at a culture which I've never experienced and where I've never lived.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Culture
  • Wish

• There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody worth getting into. With novels, I'm kind of fly by night. It isn't something I can be really consistent with.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Night
  • Reading
  • Kind

• Only a consistent, ongoing, deep experience can make a lasting media brand: one that has a commitment from a core community and the respect of a larger reading public.

  

  John Battelle
  • Experience
  • Community
  • Respect