Charles A. Reich (Charles Alan Reich) Quotes

Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice.

Charles A. Reich

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• Machines
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• The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Knowledge
  • Virtue
  • Self-knowledge

• Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

  

  Barbara Goldsmith
  • Art
  • History
  • Question

• You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Up
  • Light
  • Control

• Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • World
  • May

• We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Same
  • Vices
  • Ladder

• I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Working
  • Yoga
  • Really

• If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

  

  Nate Silver
  • You
  • Get
  • Representative

• The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • House
  • Television
  • Tax

• The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • God
  • Children
  • America

• I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Obsessed
  • Okay
  • Homeland

• One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Different
  • Doing
  • New

• As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Good
  • Want
  • Artist

• Atlanta embraced us. We have so much respect for them, and they have respect for us.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Respect
  • U.S.
  • Atlanta

• 'Nutty Professor' was me going, 'Say what you want to say, but I can do this, and you can't, and nobody else in the town can do this.'

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Want
  • Town
  • Professor

• Appointments to the higher judiciary must be through transparent processes, which ensure that persons of impeccable integrity and high competence are appointed to these positions.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • High
  • Integrity
  • Transparent

• Food Stamps helped keep me from going hungry, and Pell grants helped me go to college.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Food
  • College
  • Keep

• As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Good
  • Team
  • Successful

• Now was the present, now was the time containing that sweet union of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, spirit, will and imagination named Nancy.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Time
  • Present
  • Imagination

• For me, life is the most beautiful gift of God to mankind, therefore people and nations who destroy life by abortion and euthanasia are the poorest. I do not say legal or illegal, but I think that no human hand should be raised to kill life, since life is God's life in us, even in an unborn child.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• Actors have far fewer choices than the public thinks they do.

  

  Powers Boothe
  • Choices

• Immaturity is the inability to act in your own long-term best interest or consistent with your deepest values. As aforementioned, self-awareness is critical to self-regulation in that it is the process of identifying, among other things, our values.

  

  Chip Espinoza
  • Interest
  • Values
  • Consistent

• You never stop learning.

  

  Adena Friedman
  • Stop
  • Learning

• Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice.

  

  Charles A. Reich
  • Choices
  • Values
  • Machines