Heather Brooke Quotes

When journalism is treated as just another widget in a commercial enterprise, the focus isn't on truth, verification or public good, but productivity and output.

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• I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Never
  • Circumstances
  • Blamed

• I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • Think
  • Law

• I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Think
  • Healthy
  • Debate

• What can you do? You're never going to be - I'm sure there are people out there who think Cindy Crawford isn't pretty.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Think
  • Pretty

• I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Growing
  • Same
  • Group

• My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Physics
  • Helped
  • Exposure

• The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Life
  • Real
  • Political

• War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Nothing
  • Policy

• When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Determination

• I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • President
  • Will
  • Nation

• In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • American
  • Talking
  • China

• The PC is successful because we're all benefiting from the competition with each other. If Twitter comes along, our games benefit. If Nvidia makes better graphics technology, all the games are going to shine. If we come out with a better game, people are going to buy more PCs.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Game
  • Technology

• Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Children
  • May
  • Everyone

• I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm beginning to start to write something, I start reading what I think of as good literature. I read things with wonderful language.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Reading

• Education should ennoble the students, but instead it is debasing them. Instead of shaping the young into diamonds, it is turning them into coals. It is not bringing transformation in them, It is not bestowing wisdom.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Education
  • Wisdom
  • Students

• Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is the spring of joy, peace and courage.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Men
  • Education
  • Peace

• I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • People
  • Women
  • Dress

• Global issues require common responses: Only together we can create the conditions to defeat Daesh and al Qaeda, block channels for terrorist financing, tackle foreign terrorist fighters.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Together
  • Common
  • Defeat

• I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Write

• Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Nature
  • Simple
  • Rich

• The law of love knows no bounds of space or time.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Space
  • Bounds
  • Law Of Love

• Mozart's job classification was to write music, which he did for ballets and operas. He got paid to do that, and taught on the side. He wasn't a waiter. He didn't sell mutual funds. Those are all noble professions, but if you want to be a professional composer, then you're writing dramatic music for film and television.

  

  Bill Conti
  • Music
  • Composer
  • Mozart

• When journalism is treated as just another widget in a commercial enterprise, the focus isn't on truth, verification or public good, but productivity and output.

  

  Heather Brooke
  • Journalism
  • Widget
  • Commercial enterprise