John Dewey Quotes

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

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• Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Writing
  • Band
  • Best

• When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Career
  • College
  • Class

• Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.

  

  Kal Penn
  • Up
  • Done
  • Down

• Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don't feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I'm not worried about my body because I'm living in it. It doesn't become an object.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Up
  • Good
  • Women

• He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Always
  • Enough
  • Will

• I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Music
  • Small
  • Growing

• Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Great
  • Advice

• I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Learning
  • Thought

• I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.

  

  Taylor Phinney
  • Parents
  • Kind
  • Fact

• I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Women
  • Reality

• If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Done
  • You
  • Muse

• If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Couple

• Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Music
  • Love
  • Reflection

• If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Change
  • Better

• Music is like my security blanket.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Security
  • Blanket

• 'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought.

  

  Mal Peet
  • American
  • Deep
  • Thought

• I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Education

• I remember being in Dublin in a café and seeing him [Jack Gleeson] two or three years ago, and he came in - Joffrey[from the Game of Thrones] came in - and I remember being so star-struck. I don't like famous people and I don't really get star-struck. But I remember seeing him and being so impressed that he was walking around. So I really like Joffrey.

  

  Taika Waititi
  • People
  • Remember
  • Game

• I've always wondered what it would be like if the Messiah, or Christ Returned, were actually alive and living in our society; who would that person be, how we would identify them, how would they live and what would they believe in, how would society react to them? I decided to try and tell my idea of that story.

  

  James Frey
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Society

• The factory is the machine that builds the machine.

  

  Elon Musk

• You assume we are all sexually stable; while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that they are all perverted sinners, one way or another, that the whole society is corrupt and rotten and repressed and unconscious that it exhibits its repression in various forms of social sadism.

  

  Allen Ginsberg
  • People
  • Society
  • Hand

• The business of taking a book and transforming into a script to make this thing called a film - it's a mysterious process to me; sometimes it works.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Business
  • Book
  • Mysterious

• As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

  

  John Dewey
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  • Business
  • Society