Patron Quotes - Page 5

• A successful restaurant makes everything in it, including the patrons, seem a little better than they are.

  Mason Cooley

  Successful, Littles, Restaurants

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• Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Kings, Taken, Past

  "Utopia of Usurers". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, pp. 15-17, 1917.

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• If people want new music then they are going to have to figure out a way to be patrons of the arts. And they will.

  Ian MacKaye

  Art, People

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• The university is one of various funding structures by which people who want to do theoretical work stay alive, the same way that people go to grad school, not because they think it's going to change the world but because there's no patron system anymore, and they need some scaffolding of support while they're trying to figure out how they can proceed in their lives. I think that's utterly legit. A lot of our better theorists and thinkers, that's what the university is for them.

  Joshua Clover

  School, Thinking, People

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• No wonder the tulip is the patron flower of Holland. Looking at it one almost smells fresh paint laid on in generous brilliance: doors, blinds, whole houses, canal boats, pails, farm wagons - all painted in greens, blues, reds, pinks, yellows.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Flower, Smell, Doors

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (1976). “Personal geography: almost an autobiography”, Stephen Greene Press

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• What happens when we examine the claims made for Western liberalism as a universalizing ideology of tolerance, human dignity, equality, and compassion is the fact that the patron saint of modern liberalism, John Stuart Mill, thought that barbarian peoples like the Indians were unfit for self-rule.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Compassion, Self, Tolerance

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Human paint, produce films and videos; they dance, dream and make music; they engage in political action, exchange goods, perform rituals, build houses start wars, act in plays, try to please patrons- and so on... They contain patterns, press the practitioners to "conform" and in this way mold their thought, their perception, their actions, and their discriminative abilities.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Dream, War, Play

  Paul Feyerabend (2001). “Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being”, p.28, University of Chicago Press

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• The current health care takeover proposals feature a crucial payoff to Big Labor - a golden exemption from any tax on union members' generous health care benefits. The friends and patrons of Obama may be making out like bandits. But for everyone else, the Democrats' ideological bankruptcy comes at a nauseatingly steep price.

  Michelle Malkin

  Benefits, Care, Unions

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• In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.

  Henry James

  Running, Long, Credit

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.13592, Delphi Classics

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• The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.

  Shana Alexander

  Artist, Needs, Pharaohs

  Shana Alexander (2015). “Nutcracker: Money, Madness, Murder: A Family Album”, p.158, Open Road Media

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• Ergo, it is not St. George who is the patron saint of England, but Set of the Hyksos. In general terms whenever the code term "red" is used in the Old Testament, it denotes the Hyksos dynasty. Connected to the Order of the Garter, is the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, formed in 1818. Aditionally, legend has it that the senior members of the Merovingian dynasty of France (founders of the Knights Templar) had birthmarks in the shape of a red cross.

  Michael Tsarion

  Senior, Order, Knights

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• ...Dean Mohamet, a Muslim landowner from Patna who had followed his British patron to Ireland. There he soon eloped with, and later marries, Jean Daly, from a leading Anglo-Irish family.... In 1807 Dean Mohamet moved to London where he opened the country's first Indian owned curry restaurant, Dean Mohamet's Hindoostanee Coffee House :...He finally decamped to Brighton where he opened what can only be described as Britain's first oriental massage parlour and became "Shampooing Surgeon to Kings George IV and William IV. "

  William Dalrymple

  Country, Kings, Coffee

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• I don't know any saint who wanted to be the patron saint of kissing.

  Lino Rulli

  Kissing, Saint, Wanted

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• There are self-made millionaires - their aspiration is first to make money. But the once that goal is achieved, they have to look for something and sometimes they become patrons of art or museums. And that is how the world should go.

  Tadao Ando

  Art, Museums, Self

  "Interview: Architect Tadao Ando on the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth". Interview with Peter Simek, www.dmagazine.com. October 23, 2012.

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• On this day, millions of people...throughout the world will gather to commemorate the life of Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. From his days as a slave in Ireland to his work as missionary years later, St. Patrick demonstrated a courage, commitment, and faith that won the hearts and minds of the Irish people. St. Patrick's Day also serves as a time for people of Irish descent from all traditions and religions to honor their native land and shared heritage. Their devotion to family, faith, and community has strengthened our country's character.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Heart, Character

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• When St Genesius, the patron saint of actors, refused to act in a Roman play that ridiculed Christianity, the legend goes, the producers executed him. It reminds some people of Broadway today.

  Samuel G. Freedman

  Play, People, Saint

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• I'm almost mentally incapable of drawing a distinction between art I make for the masses, or my clients, and that I make for myself. It all flows from what gets me off, ultimately. It's my viewpoint, and I don't particularly care if it gets seen by gallery patrons, magazine readers, internet audiences, or my friends, as long as it gets seen.

  Clayton James Cubitt

  Art, Long, Care

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Right now in Oregon anybody can open a saloon, and hire people to come in and have sex in front of their patrons.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Sex, Oregon, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If we have the kinds of confirmation that we need, we will once again work with the international community and the organization charged with monitoring compliance by the Syrian government, and we will reach out to patrons of Assad like Russia to put a stop to it.

  Barack Obama

  Russia, Government, Organization

  Remarks by President Obama in Press Conference after GCC Summit, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 14, 2015.

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• Noah was this sort of patron saint in my life. When I finished Pi and I started to think about what was next, I was like, "Wow, it's interesting that no one has done a film of one of the greatest stories ever told." Even if you're not a Jew, a Muslim, or a Christian, you likely have a flood story in your culture.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Christian, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel like the traditional patron system meant that you would kiss the ass of one rich person and then hide all of the financial goings-on of your work, and you could pretend you were pure.

  Molly Crabapple

  Kissing, Financial, Rich

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Through the media, we've establishes this standard of what every human being should look up to: somebody who always looks right; who always has the right light on their face; never has bags under their eyes; never says anything inappropriate. Somebody who always somehow turns out perfect. I hate the fact that celebrities are supposedly a higher class of human being. That's the way I felt growing up, and that's the way I think a lot of people feel. So now that I'm in this position, I want to change things. I want to be like the patron saint of reality.

  Fiona Apple

  Growing Up, Hate, Eye

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm down with the whole patron thing. Bring back the Medicis. Maybe, I'm not just a lefty, but a royalist.

  Jill Sobule

  Lefties, Whole

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am confident that for the foreseeable future (barring some catastrophic event affecting economic, energy, electrical, and communications systems), many subpopulations that use information intensively (e.g., students, academics, library patrons, white collar workers) will be using some sort of portal information appliance.

  Tom Peters

  Communication, White, Library

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• I think the sheer attrition of American global domination will create circumstances in which the Chinese will be tempted to reach out for more influence, including in regions in which we have special interests, such as the Middle East, from which they already obtain a great deal of their energy. And that region will be seeking some new superpower patron.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Thinking, Chinese, Special

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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