David Cortright Quotes

Warmakers are often wrong. ... Peace advocates are sometimes right, especially when their ideas are not only morally sound but politically realistic

David Cortright

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• I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you're rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Game
  • Team
  • Sometimes

• What gets people into trouble with records now is that they want to build something up without substantial musical ideas. Without that as a foundation, you can add all the layers of sound you want - it's still going to sound like a mess.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • People
  • Up
  • Ideas

• 'Badlands' is a very tangible record; a lot of the sounds were actual things: they were pots and pans, and they were rocks, and they were voices,and instruments used in a way to create a landscape of sound.

  

  Halsey
  • Sound
  • Rocks
  • Landscape

• Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Sometimes
  • Situation

• Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Up
  • Reality

• I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of England, and I grew up all along that strip of coast that Chichester branches out into. Sometimes I was living in a house in the country, and sometimes I was living in a town.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Up
  • Country
  • House

• My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Ideas
  • Independent
  • Company

• You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• The good ideas will survive.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Good
  • Ideas
  • Survive

• It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.

  

  Ferdinand Christian Baur
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Circumstances

• Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Hand
  • Sometimes

• It's so inspiring to be around other people who have ideas you haven't thought of, and all of a sudden you're like, 'Wow! That's so amazing!' I definitely want everything I do to just get better and better.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Ideas

• I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Sometimes
  • Feel
  • Racism

• Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Fear
  • Sometimes
  • Wrong

• I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Ideas
  • Opinion
  • New York

• To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Sometimes
  • Find
  • Search

• I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Think
  • Sound
  • Interviews

• I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Man
  • Always
  • Sound

• In an effort to create safety and self-reliance in your life and relationships, you may have built walls around your heart and accumulated tension in your body. Although sometimes these walls of protection are useful, they can, over time, act like shells of fear that block your true love. These shells can keep in the love you want to offer fully and keep out the love that your heart yearns to receive.

  

  David Deida
  • Life
  • Time
  • Heart

• Everybody loves you because you are brilliantly awkward.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Awkward

• When 'Avatar' came out, we were out non-stop for a year and a half doing red carpet events. I had a stylist who helped me, but it was really hard, and we couldn't find many sustainable dresses.

  

  Suzy Amis
  • Dresses
  • Red Carpet
  • Avatar

• When you have a little one, you realize that your only mission in life is to protect this helpless, very sensitive creature. That is your charge. That's primal. I relate to that deeply.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Realize
  • Mission

• Warmakers are often wrong. ... Peace advocates are sometimes right, especially when their ideas are not only morally sound but politically realistic

  

  David Cortright
  • Ideas
  • Sometimes
  • Sound