C. E. M. Joad Quotes
War provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny, glorifies cruelty and places in positions of power the vulgar and base.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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Actors don't have real value.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.
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I grew up in Florida riding horses, so for the majority of my life I was either in boots and jeans or a bathing suit.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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I am very happy and honored to be part of the Sony ATV family.
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If you could get all the people in the organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.
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My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.
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We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.
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The mind is a powerful tool.
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I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.
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When I read the script of 'The Wall,' I saw how much different the war looks from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.
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Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.
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On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at Court or at war, from which so many quarrels, passions, risky, often ill-conceived actions and so on are born, I have often said that man's unhappiness springs from one thing alone, his incapacity to stay quietly in one room.
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War provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny, glorifies cruelty and places in positions of power the vulgar and base.
