C. E. M. Joad Quotes

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C. E. M. Joad

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• Long hair, for me, is actually less maintenance. I went through a phase when I was kid where I wanted a pixie cut. At the time I thought it looked awesome, but I look back and I looked like such a dork! When I have short hair, I feel like I have to blow dry it, or it doesn't sit properly.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Time
  • Long
  • Hair

• I'm trying to focus on my job as I see it, which is to write the next thing and to remain, to the degree that I ever was, a noticer.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Focus

• The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Spiritual

• I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Blues

• The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • You
  • Financial
  • Discover

• We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Night
  • Day
  • Plant

• A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Security
  • More
  • Surveillance

• Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Man
  • Beginning
  • Sports

• May books spread the world over!

  

  Yann Martel
  • World
  • May
  • Books

• My boy cousins used to sit my older brother and me down and take us through a film-studies course. It included 'Tremors', 'The Goonies', and, of course, 'Star Wars'. That was when it began: sitting cross-legged watching as the opening crawl goes up the screen.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Film
  • Studies
  • Opening

• The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Trying
  • Say
  • Capable

• I think a lot of actors will tell you that playing a villain can be more fun than playing the straight and narrow good guy.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Think

• In the area of field apps, Collector for ArcGIS is great, but where do you go? There's a navigator app. And then what do you do when you get there? There's a workforce app. So all of these apps work hand-in-hand to support field workers.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Work
  • Great
  • Support

• A revolution is to bring on change and we're spiritual people trying to bring on spiritual change. It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Trying
  • Change

• It just meant a lot because it's something I've always wanted to do. I've always wanted to be a Senior National Champ. I was Junior National Champ in 2002, so now to be the senior champ is great.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Great
  • Now
  • Senior

• I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Up
  • Focus
  • Say

• It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a human-rights violation.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Campaign
  • Journalists
  • Violation

• 'I'm giving this to Eeyore,' he explained, 'as a present. What are you going to give?' 'Couldn't I give it too?' said Piglet. 'From both of us?' 'No,' said Pooh. 'That would not be a good plan.'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Good
  • Giving
  • Present

• We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

  

  Lady Randolph Churchill
  • Hand
  • Adventure
  • Go

• I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.

  

  Christina Ricci

• When you're a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.

  

  Chris Evert
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reality

• I believe in a free market of ideas and not shying away from debate.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Believe
  • Free

• The habit of committing our thoughts to writing is a powerful means of expanding the mind, and producing a logical and systematic arrangement of our views and opinions. It is this which gives the writer a vast superiority, as to the accuracy and extent of his conceptions, over the mere talker. No one can ever hope to know the principles of any art or science thoroughly who does not write as well as read upon the subject.

  

  William Blaikie
  • Writing
  • Powerful
  • Principles

• It all depends what you mean by.

  

  C. E. M. Joad