John Petit-Senn Quotes

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.

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• Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Law
  • Fashion
  • Influence

• But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • People
  • Music
  • Voice

• I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Think
  • English

• I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Woman
  • Choice
  • Independence

• If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • People
  • Kind
  • Spirit

• Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Kind
  • Happen
  • Lottery

• Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Up
  • Want
  • Growing

• When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Different
  • Long
  • Hair

• Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Progress
  • Healthy
  • Prelude

• I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Hate
  • Star
  • Pop

• If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel like you can be funny and clever, as opposed to just outright vile.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Funny
  • Relationship
  • Clever

• I didn't really enjoy school in general.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • School
  • Enjoy
  • Really

• I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • People
  • Positive
  • Read

• Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • People
  • Up
  • Culture

• I was thinking on the rollers today that, before a race, if I could just pick my brain up and put it on the side of the track for four minutes, it would be perfect.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Today

• Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • New
  • Fault
  • Globalization

• Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Great
  • Important
  • Decisions

• No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • World
  • Powerful
  • Justice

• The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Plan
  • Awareness
  • Develop

• Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Different
  • Country
  • Kids

• Places change all the time, and the type of people who live there change.

  

  Martin Parr
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• Some of the most brilliant things that someone might do could happen in three minutes because it's something that just occurs to them. And then, there's the example of really chipping away at something to create something great. I don't believe that one is more reliable than the other.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Great
  • Believe

• Departure from the literal aspect, rather than mechanical exactness, is the code of the true artist. However, departures are the result of studied intent rather than inability.

  

  Edgar Alwin Payne
  • Artist
  • Result
  • Inability

• Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.

  

  John Petit-Senn
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe