Who Cares Quotes - Page 15

• A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they strengthen their souls.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Mean, Soul, Using Words

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• The contrast couldn't be clearer between the intentions and the hearts of those of us who care deeply about human rights and human liberty and those who kill. [on the terrorist bombings in London, July 7, 2005

  George W. Bush

  Heart, Rights, July

  George W. Bush's address to the people of London on the terrorist bombings, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. July 7, 2005.

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• There are two tests that we [writers] have for all of our writing: So What? and Who Cares? There is an answer to both. The answer to Who Cares is that a reader cares, if the writing is good. The answer to So What is that these ideas give us completely new understanding, change our sense of who we [people] are and why we're here [on this planet].

  Richard Bach

  Writing, Ideas, Two

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• Now, I will say, most American companies - most are run by honorable patriotic people who care about their employees and communities. But there are still too many powerful interests fighting to protect their own profits and privileges at the expense of everyone else.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Powerful, Patriotic

  Source: time.com

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• It goes to extremes - from people saying I'm the best of all-time to people saying, "I hate that white boy." Who cares? At the end of the day, if people don't like you, they're not your friends anyway.

  Riff Raff

  Hate, Boys, White

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is?

  Orson Scott Card

  Important, Stories, Firsts

  "Future on Fire". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1991.

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• Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running the company and the people doing the work. They no longer have an inherent feel or a passion about the products. The creative people, who are the ones who care passionately, have to persuade five layers of management to do what they know is the right thing to do.

  Steve Jobs

  Running, Business, Passion

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• Any person of any philosophic persuasion who sits on a hot stove will verify without any intellectual argument whatsoever that he is in an undeniably low-quality situation: that the value of his predicament is negative. This low quality is not just a vague, woolly-headed, crypto-religious, metaphysical abstraction. It is an experience. It is not a judgment about an experience. It is not a description of experience. The value itself is an experience. As such it is completely predictable. It is verifiable by anyone who cares to do so.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Religious, Intellectual, Quality

  "Lila : An Inquiry Into Morals". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1991.

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• Three kinds of souls, three prayers: 1) I am a bow in your hands, Lord. Draw me, lest I rot. 2) Do not overdraw me, Lord. I shall break. 3) Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Prayer, Hands, Soul

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• There are dons who care for the intellect and the imagination, and there are priests who care for the spirit; but broadly speaking the function of universities and churches alike is to trim and tame enthusiasm, to suppress curiosity, and, in short, to whittle immortal souls into serviceable props of the established order.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Order, Imagination, Soul

  Hugh Kingsmill (1949). “The Progress of a Biographer”

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• We shouldn't confuse singers and performers with actors. Actors will say, "My character this, and my character that." Like beating a dead horse. Who cares about the character? Just get up and act. You don't have to explain it to me.

  Bob Dylan

  Horse, Character, Actors

  Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 13, 2009.

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• There's a difference between just gaining access to a commodity as opposed to a spirit that allows us to live a life of love and justice, that when crisis and catastrophe hits you, that the biggest mansion in the world is not going to help you. If you don't have anybody who loves you, if you don't have any God who cares for you, that you're not going to have what it takes to move to the next stage in your life.

  Cornel West

  Love You, Moving, Differences

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• My daily affairs are quite ordinary; but I'm in total harmony with them. I don't hold on to anything, don't reject anything; nowhere an obstacle or conflict. Who cares about wealth and honor? Even the poorest thing shines. My miraculous power and spiritual activity: drawing water and carrying wood.

  Layman Pang

  Spiritual, Drawing, Water

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• Who cares about 17-21 year olds? Jack Myers does, and you should, too, if you want a front row seat on where the future of business and civilization is going.

  Geraldine Laybourne

  Years, Civilization, Doe

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• Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Sick, Tasks

  Margaret Mead (1964). “Continuities in Cultural Evolution”, p.321, Transaction Publishers

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• In a sense, sexual harassment lawsuits are just the latest version of the female selection process allowing her to select for men who care enough for her to put their career at risk; who have enough finesse to initiate without becoming a jerk and enough guts to initiate despite a potential lawsuit. In the past, though, the process of his overcoming her barriers was called 'courtship.' Now it is called either 'courtship' or 'sexual harassment'.

  Warren Farrell

  Past, Men, Careers

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• I think people today are very cynical. They need to bring other people down. Reality television and tabloid magazines—never before did we need to see movie stars taking out their garbage. But all of a sudden, it's front-page news—trying to figure out who's dating whom, all that stuff. Who cares?

  Scarlett Johansson

  Stars, Thinking, Reality

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• You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen.

  Robert Jordan

  Queens, Children, Want

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.608, Macmillan

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• The street kid in me says, "Grab the money and run - who cares who it's from! Don't think about whatever you have to do for it or when you have to do it!

  Klaus Kinski

  Running, Kids, Thinking

  Klaus Kinski (1997). “Kinski Uncut: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski”, Penguin Books

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• Who cares if I've had sex? It's nobody's business. Trust me, I'm not going to have a press conference to announce it.

  Britney Spears

  Sex, Trust Me, Conferences

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• A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.

  Billy Bragg

  Country, Patriot, Happens

  Interview on CBC Radio One, November 17, 2006.

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• since feelings come first, who cares about the syntax of things?

  e. e. cummings

  Feelings, Syntax, Firsts

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• My greatest achievement so far is that I've been able to continue with my normal life. I love what I do, but more so, I'm glad to have people who care about me close by.

  Kim Smith

  People, Achievement, Able

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• I’m not doing anything wrong, I’m not obstructing anyone’s access. When I have a crowd I make sure that the crowd makes room for people. I’m an artist who cares about the cultural fabric of New York City. I care about New York as a harbor for street culture - and I care about street culture as a base-level populist diffusion of ideas. And I believe in making those ideas accessible to everyone.

  Kalan Sherrard

  New York, Believe, Artist

  "Reading photographs may be like reading language, but only up to a point". Interview with Bucky Miller, believermagblog.wordpress.com. June 6, 2014.

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• Making media companies that you hope to sell is not a lot of fun for anyone who cares deeply about making media.

  John Battelle

  Fun, Media, Company

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