Values Quotes - Page 32

• Pay-TV companies that built their businesses on the backs of local and network broadcast signals should pay a fair price for access to that high-value programming.

  Gordon Smith

  Pay, Tvs, Should

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• We are delighted to find a person who values us as we value ourselves, and distinguishes us from the rest of mankind, with an attention not unlike that with which we distinguish ourselves.

  Adam Smith

  Attention, Mankind, Persons

  Adam Smith (2012). “The Theory of Moral Sentiments”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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• It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion.

  Jack London

  Lying, Passion, Men

  Jack London (2016). “Jack London Six Pack”, p.292, Lulu.com

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• The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately interesting object, the human body, and puts it out of reach of time and desire; it takes the most purely rational concept of which mankind is capable, mathematical order, and makes it a delight to the senses; and it takes the vague fears of the unknown and sweetens them by showing that the gods are like men and may be worshiped for their life-giving beauty rather than their death-dealing powers.

  Kenneth Clark

  Men, Order, Giving

  "The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form" by Kenneth Clark, (Ch. I), 1951.

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• This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Needs, Small Business, Economy

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• Thus the labour of a manufacture adds, generally, to the value of the materials which he works upon, that of his own maintenance, and of his masters profits. The labour of a menial servant, on the contrary, adds to the value of nothing.

  Adam Smith

  Add, Maintenance, Masters

  Adam Smith (2007). “The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With an introduction by Jonathan B. Wight, University of Richmond”, p.311, Harriman House Limited

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• If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the minds of Western intellectuals easily filled by secular superstition. There is no other explanation for the credulity with which scientists, accustomed to evaluating evidence, and writers, whose whole function was to study and criticize society, accepted the crudest Stalinist propaganda at its face value. They needed to believe; they wanted to be duped.

  Paul Johnson

  Religious, Believe, Political

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• When I reflect that the task which the artist implicitly sets himself is to overthrow existing values, to make of the chaos about him an order which is his own, to sow strife and ferment so that by the emotional release those who are dead may be restored to life, then it is that I run with joy to the great and imperfect ones, their confusion nourishes me, their stuttering is like divine music to my ears.

  Henry Miller

  Running, Art, Emotional

  Henry Miller (1961). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• Science has long been in the value business. Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, scientific validity is not the result of scientists abstaining from making value judgments; rather, scientific validity is the result of scientists making their best efforts to value principles of reasoning that link their beliefs to reality, through reliable chains of evidence and argument.

  Sam Harris

  Reality, Objectivity, Best Effort

  "The Moral Landscape". Book by Sam Harris, 2010.

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• The only thing you can never change is your values.

  Michael Johnson

  Inspirational, Never Change

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• I've been having an affair, but I still believe in family values.

  Paul Johnson

  Believe, Scary, Affair

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• Satan's aim is to destroy our joy and trust and delight in God, and to make God look worthless in the world's eyes. Everytime someone forsakes God for the world, gets angry at God when part of the world is taken away from them, they highlight the world as valuable... and everytime someone stays with God, when the world is taken away, and praises God, they highlight the value and glory of God.

  John Piper

  Faith, Religious, Taken

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• As actors, we react to the material that's out there, and I probably just react more strongly to things that I feel will have some social value.

  Matt Damon

  Social Values, Actors, Feels

  "Matt Damon Interview INVICTUS". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. December 10, 2009.

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• Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

  George Chapman

  Men, Virtuous Woman, Virtuous

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• You have to be totally one hundred per cent committed to act. I do value everyone else's advice, but ultimately I have to listen to myself.

  Dakota Fanning

  Advice, Hundred, Committed

  "Push - Dakota Fanning interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• You don't need shock value things to make a movie successful.

  Haylie Duff

  Successful, Needs, Shock

  "Hilary and Haylie Duff Are Material Girls". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. August 17, 2006.

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• The experience we all share and the outcomes, which have been remarkable in a way I never could have predicted. Taking unmotivated people - maybe marginally motivated to get on TV and make money - and ending up with a group that values and is changed by the treatment process and wants to share it with other people.

  Drew Pinsky

  People, Groups, Unmotivated

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I have been very consistent over the course of my entire life. I have always fought for the same values and principles.

  Hillary Clinton

  Principles, Consistent, Courses

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• People forget that art is not just a piece of entertainment. It is the place where we collectively declare our values and then act on them. That's one of the most powerful things we have as a community: our culture and our art. And it's the intersection between life and how people deal with life. It's the most important thing we do.

  Wendell Pierce

  Art, Powerful, People

  "The Wire's Wendell Pierce on art, New Orleans, and his crush on Janet Jackson". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. October 14, 2015.

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• Valentine's Day is much more of a holy day of obligation for a guy in a relationship with a woman, because a woman has certain emotional expectations. Even if she doesn't value Valentine's Day, or views it as a corporate exercise, she still often wants her boyfriend or husband to go through the motions, just in case she values it.

  Dan Savage

  Husband, Valentine, Exercise

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• I like the fact that people come together who have shared values, but I don't believe that a man died 2,000 years ago and was crucified on a cross to save me from my original sin.

  Steve Coogan

  Believe, Men, Years

  "Steve Coogan Doesn't Believe in Fairies". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.

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• I think mostly the commodifying comes after I've done something that has some other value to me.

  Tao Lin

  Thinking, Done

  Interview with David Shapiro Jr., www.interviewmagazine.com. June 6, 2013.

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• Making music videos, I try to bring musicians into the logistics of filmmaking, and I try to preserve whatever's of value and achievable in their idea. If it's something I can't achieve, I tell them straight. You want to make sure that the artist really loves the idea and is committed to it, otherwise they're not going to feel great when they're up there miming it.

  Adria Petty

  Artist, Ideas, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think love can save the world. When we love, we completely recognize the value of the other.

  Anne Rice

  Thinking, World, Save The World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In a very philosophic sense I think doing the work is itself a good thing. But at the end of the day, since we're taking other people's shekels to do it, and their work is being able to make a return out of it, it forces you to consider the fact that you're doing it for other people. The whole construct is built around the assumption that it's going to get shared, and that someone else is going to find value in it - entertainment, catharsis, enlightenment, or whatever.

  Edward Norton

  Thinking, People, The End Of The Day

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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