C. E. M. Joad Quotes
There are those who feel an imperative need to believe, for whom the values of a belief are proportionate not to its truth, but to its definiteness. Incapable of either admitting the existence of contrary judgments or of suspending their own, they supply the place of knowledge by turning other men's conjectures into dogmas.
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The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling. (20 December 1939)
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The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
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You never get time at Working Title, sadly, to enjoy any film's success, because you're worrying about the next lot.
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Space and time may have a structure as intricate as the fauna of a rich ecosystem, but on a scale far larger than the horizon of our observations.
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I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political climate.
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There are those who feel an imperative need to believe, for whom the values of a belief are proportionate not to its truth, but to its definiteness. Incapable of either admitting the existence of contrary judgments or of suspending their own, they supply the place of knowledge by turning other men's conjectures into dogmas.
