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The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence. -- Alison Bechdel
What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos. -- Herbert Read
My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I've always had this ethos of, like, 'try and make a little bit of money now because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.' -- Moby
In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science. -- John Maeda
I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American. -- J. C. Watts
I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine. -- Laurence Fishburne
Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being. -- Jerry Saltz
When the responses elicited by the Epic of Evolution are gathered together several religious principles emerge that I can believe, serve as a framework for a global Ethos. -- Ursula Goodenough
No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world. -- Bernard M. Oliver
Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it. -- Garrison Keillor
I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not. -- Nigel Rees
The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires. -- John Paul II
No place in the US better exemplifies the ethos to engineer new digital technologies than Silicon Valley -- John Maeda
Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial. -- Tina Brown
As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage. -- Frances Conroy
With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system. -- Herbert Hoover
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church. -- Thomas Aquinas
The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny. -- Robert Dale Owen
On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Fear stimulates us to take action and can be our friend, but if you act as though fear is not there-if you deny it-it will build and create barriers. -- Darren Johnson
Never, since the fall of communism, has it been so abundantly clear that an ethos exists, which is loath to accept the freedoms and prosperity we hold sacred in this nation. -- Jim Walsh
I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and that's very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about. -- Blake Bailey
I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline. -- Lydia Lunch
I think he likes it. He fits in with our ethos. He's a good worker and is an excellent pro. Thank goodness he likes his training or else he wouldn't settle here. -- Iain Dowie
Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes? -- Joseph Campbell
The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting. -- Edward Hopper
Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years. -- Richard Rogers
A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle in it, write notes in it, and I put pictures in it. -- John Varvatos
Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of Solidarity is based on an opposite premise - that there are causes worth suffering and dying for. -- Adam Michnik
A free Net may depend on some wisely developed and implemented locks and a community ethos that secures the keys to those locks among groups with shared norms and a sense of public purpose rather than in the hands of one gatekeeper. -- Jonathan Zittrain
In the gospel message, the beginning of change occurs in the heart of each individual. This heart change makes a difference in the home, then in the community, and ultimately in the nation- and in turn it shapes the future of a cultural ethos. -- Ravi Zacharias
I have been described by one of my colleagues as a 'militant agnostic' with my tagline, 'I don't know, and neither do you!' I take this hard-line, fence-sitting position because it is the only position consistent with both my scientific ethos and my conscience. -- Brian Schmidt
Science is very vibrant. There are always new observations to be found. And it's all in the interest in challenging the authority that came before you. That's consistent with the punk rock ethos that suggests that you should not take what people say at face value. -- Greg Graffin
At a lot of companies founded on principles, the notion of making money is almost antithetical to the ethos of the place. From the very beginning, our business has existed to meet the needs and desires of multiple constituencies: customers, team members, vendors, shareholders, the community. -- John Mackey
The Internet ethos of diversity and competition runs exactly counter to uniform, gatekeeper-oriented medical culture - the technocratic philosophy of the 'one best way' embodied in our pharmaceutical regulations. On the Net, medical information is abundant, and pharmacies, domestic and foreign, operate on many different models. -- Virginia Postrel
The Vikings themselves are fascinating creatures. They're human beings, of course, but their ethos are so different from ours. The fact that they live as warriors - their willingness to die for the sake of what they believe in - is quite shocking to us, and it's fascinating to see. -- Linus Roache
When there wasn't a lot of work, I wrote a screenplay, 'What Lies Beneath,' which got noticed and got me more acting jobs. As I got more jobs, I was able to make my own films. That ethos of making my own work has provided me with a lot of opportunities. -- Clark Gregg
This is the first generation to grow up on Thatcher - it's a different ethos. It's money minded, and it's the cult of yourself. Now that's fine, except when it falls down, and you can't achieve your goals - through high unemployment, through the fact that you probably need inherited money to get anywhere. -- Jane Campion
That's that Dungeon Family ethos: being able to reinvent yourself, stand out and stand alone. Having your own character and having your own image, no matter what they say about you. I want to show my versatility and how diverse I am, how I approach the track, my rhythm, my melodies. It's something different. -- Nayvadius Cash
We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them. -- Carl Honore
I think the ethos for Gov. Romney is to use a whole variety of policies, of which tax policy is one, to try to raise the rate of growth. We've had a recovery from the financial crisis that would be well below what one might normally expect for a recovery from such a deep recession. And to counteract that we need better tax policy. -- Glenn Hubbard
I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And I try to leave room for that unpredictable factor, where the feeling of the song is allowed to come through. The same ethos can be applied to singing Mozart, or Schubert, or Bach. It's not just about what's on the page. -- Kathleen Battle
Envy is the root of the egalitarian ethos. -- Robert Stacy McCain
No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical. -- Janet Morris
Vivienne Westwood really inspires me. I love her punk ethos. -- Charli XCX
Reading more than life teaches us to recognize ethos and pathos. -- Mason Cooley
A universal ethos cannot be thought the property of any one culture. -- Prince Hassan bin Talal
Shutterstock has the tech ethos. Rex has the relationships, packaging, and merchandising know-how. -- Jon Oringer
Without restoring an ethos of social responsibility, there can be no meaningful and sustained economic recovery. -- Jeffrey Sachs
The punk-rock ethos was "Do it yourself. Anyone can do this. We're not sent from the heavens." -- Michael Stipe
This was the ethos of the intelligence analysis directorate during most of the 27 years I spent there. -- Ray McGovern
The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires. -- John Paul II
I understand working-class culture, tribalism and the ethos of violence, so I make films about these things. -- Nick Love
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires. -- John Paul II
It would be nice if all that exuberance and abundance was connected to a deep ethos of planetary responsibility. -- William McDonough
We don't necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos. -- Adam Savage
The ethos and critique are of poetry, which becomes a rich dark with a phosphorescence of lyric as witness. -- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
The ethos of not fooling yourself is one of the best you could possibly have. It's powerful because it's so rare. -- Charlie Munger
The working class had imposed upon them a sterile and authoritarian educational system which mirrored the ethos of the corporate workplace. -- Anthony M. Platt
So, economics should emulate physics' basic ethos, but its search for precision in physics-like formulas is almost always wrong in economics. -- Charlie Munger
I come from a land where the idea of the whole world being one family is rooted in our ethos 'vasudhaiva kutumbakam'. -- Narendra Modi
It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay. -- Alan Cumming
People didn't get to see how other towns interpreted the underground ethos, and so they developed their own unique versions of it. -- Michael Azerrad
WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos of human co-existence -- Steven Biko
Puritanism carried the ethos of the rational organization of capital and labor. It took over from the Jewish ethic only what was adapted to this purpose. -- Max Weber
I like the ethos of the military and the idea of joining an institution in which, at the very least, everyone who signs up believes in something. -- Phil Klay
For every reader and writer of steampunk fiction, there are probably hundreds or thousands of other activists who gleefully embrace some non-written manifestation of the steampunk ethos. -- Paul Di Filippo
Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence. -- Hal Rothman
I'm curious about other universes, and nonhuman elementals. For me it's still a very lively ethos. It's a kind of practice. It's an ethos that is very sustaining. -- Anne Waldman
The anti-hero has played an important role in the history of mankind, so much so that the whole ethos of what is good and bad has become blurred. -- Stephen Richards
And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos. -- Michael Foley
A lot of my life has involved with helping create cultures that have as their basis this vision of the sharing, the partaking of a certain ethos together. -- Anne Waldman
Design [is] the emerging ethos formulating and then answering a very new question: What shall we do now, in the face of the chaos that we have created? -- John Hockenberry
The ethos of most films is that you make a film, you exploit the community, you exploit the environment, and it's OK because you made a great film, you know? -- Naomie Harris
Current ethos in Silicon Valley is that if you build a website that people keep coming back to and is changing the lives of millions, you can eventually make money. -- Daphne Koller
Current ethos in Silicon Valley is that if you build a website that people keep coming back to and is changing the lives of millions, you can eventually make money." -- Daphne Koller
I think once you get it in your head, that you're not going to do anything bigger, you just do things that you enjoy, which has always been my ethos anyway. -- Billy Boyd
In the early days, myself and my friends were into punk because we had no money, just very basic instruments and skills. It was more about the ethos and the energy. -- Alison Moyet
I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about. -- Blake Bailey
It's incredible to be working with Mr Armani and his team at Emporio Armani. I feel an affinity to the brand ethos and have been a long time admirer of their designs. -- Calvin Harris
Ours is a post-Christian world in which Christianity, not only in the number of Christians but in cultural emphasis and cultural result, is no longer the consensus or ethos of our society. -- Francis Schaeffer
Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but where a vision of mutuality is the ethos shaping our interaction. -- bell hooks
Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation, who . . . even described abolitionism itself as an atheist plot. -- Susan Jacoby
Certainly the beat writers I've known who carried forward the original, you know, I'd say that came together in the 1940s and 50s. So I was inheriting in a way some of that ethos. -- Anne Waldman
In the end, we all want a wife. But the home has become increasingly invaded by the ethos of work, work, work, with twin sets of external clocks imposed on a household's natural rhythms. -- Sandra Tsing Loh

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