David Batstone Quotes

I like to think that Not For Sale is the Juniper Networks of the social section, a disruptive innovator.

David Batstone

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• If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Kids
  • College
  • Tax

• I'd sit on the coffee table and lip sync to 'Blue Christmas,' 'I Can't Help Falling in Love,' 'Love Me Tender,' 'Don't Be Cruel' - some of the big hits like that.

  

  Drake Milligan
  • Help
  • Blue
  • Christmas

• If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • House
  • Build
  • Houses

• There was a point in my teenage years, when we were starting to play bigger shows and females were running after tour buses and all that, and my mom - and I remember this like it was yesterday - said: 'Look, I want you to know that I couldn't be prouder of you. You are extraordinary. You move people. But it doesn't make you better than them. You still put your pants on the same way as them, one leg at a time every morning.' I thought about learning to jump right into them, just to mess with her. But what she said stuck with me, and I think it's true.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Ideas
  • Looks
  • Defense

• He's a trellis for varicose veins.

  

  Wilson Mizner
  • Sarcastic
  • Veins

• I used to think I should like to be a bookbinder or bookseller it seemed to me a most delightful trade and I wished or thought of nothing better. More lately I thought I should be a minister, it seemed so serious and useful a profession, and I entered but little into the merits of religion and the duties of a minister. Every one dissuaded me from the notion, and before I arrived at any age to require a real decision, science had claimed me.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Real
  • Age
  • Decision

• Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult.

  

  Andre Marrou
  • Treat
  • Adult
  • Liberals

• On this land, Muslims, Christians and Jews can coexist together, as they have - as they had for the - for hundreds of years in the framework of a democratic state.

  

  Hassan Nasrallah
  • Christians
  • Jews
  • Muslims

• For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Stories
  • Approach
  • Conservative

• I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!

  

  Little Richard
  • Rock
  • Rock And Roll
  • Architect

• The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

  

  Count Basie
  • Real
  • Being
  • Themselves

• It will really indicate the power of IP networks to beyond the power of what we're doing today.

  

  Charles Giancarlo
  • Power
  • Today
  • Networks

• When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Young
  • Television
  • Conspiracy

• So in 1924, Eleanor Roosevelt really gets a sense of what the limits of the battle and the contours of the battle are going to be. The men are contemptuous of the women, and the women really need to organize. She writes an article which becomes an article she writes in different ways over and over and over again: Women need to organize. They need to create their own bosses. They need to have support networks and gangs so that they are a force.

  

  Blanche Wiesen Cook
  • Women
  • Force
  • Battle

• The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.

  

  Eric Temple Bell
  • Experimentation
  • Innovator
  • Creative Work

• Now with the allocation and the understanding of the lack of understanding, we enter into a new era of science in which we feel nothing more than so much so as to say that those within themselves, comporary or non-comporary, will figuratively figure into the folding of our non-understanding and our partial understanding to the networks of which we all draw our source and conclusions from.

  

  Reggie Watts
  • Science
  • Understanding
  • Themselves

• I like to think that Not For Sale is the Juniper Networks of the social section, a disruptive innovator.

  

  David Batstone
  • Networks
  • Innovator
  • Not For Sale