"But it is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it."

-- William Deresiewicz

#Jobs Quotes #Feel Good Quotes #Being True Quotes

“If I'm outside, I want something flat on my feet.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.”
“The future of Arab films is absolutely up to Arabs and no one else. They've got the equipment, they've got the will, they've got the talent, now they just need a little bit of history behind them and a bit of cultural relaxation.”

Source : "Alexander Siddig — Discovering the Uncommon Hero". Interview with E. Nina Rothe, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2011.
“Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage directors, never by musicians.”

Source : "There Will Be Joy". Interview with Lydia Perović, logger.believermag.com. August 1, 2013.
“Don't be 'practical' in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.”

Source : 1909 Socialism Made Easy.
“At bottom, the court's opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self-government since the founding, and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. It is a strange time to repudiate that common sense. While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.”

Source : "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310". United States Supreme Court case No. 08-205, caselaw.findlaw.com. January 21, 2010.
“I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.”
“At the time we acquired Viacom, everyone said I had overpaid. But even at today's depressed prices, that investment is worth billions. Everyone was saying MTV was a fad. I knew better.”

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