Department Quotes - Page 29

• I studied in London in 1968. Our school had a separate department of tropical architecture. Of course it was totally unfashionable, partly because nobody wanted to think about colonialism, but basically what you learned there was that, OK, the sun is here, so you should create natural ventilation here - an unbelievable amount of really sound principles that have been completely abandoned, so now everything is air conditioned with big machines.

  Rem Koolhaas

  School, Thinking, Air

  "'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2016.

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• [Eric]Goldman [a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law] says back in the 1990s, courts began to confront the question of whether software code is a form of speech. Goldman says the answer to that question came in a case called Bernstein v. U.S. Department of Justice. Student Daniel Bernstein who created an encryption software called Snuffle. He wanted to put it on the Internet. The government tried to prevent him, using a law meant to stop the export of firearms and munitions. Goldman says the student argued his code was a form of speech.

  Laura Sydell

  School, Government, Law

  Source: www.npr.org

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• My overall recommendation: for decades corporate policy manuals and HR departments have told people they are responsible for their own careers. It's about time people really heeded those warnings.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Careers, People, Warning

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• With big productions, you can sometimes get lost with the terminology and all the different departments.

  Rose Leslie

  Different, Sometimes, Lost

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 22, 2015.

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• A very dear friend of mine great actress named Wendy Rich Stetson was very active in the theater department at Amherst and I went to all the plays she was in, and it became very clear to me that what she was doing was something I wanted to be doing.

  John Cariani

  Play, Actresses, Rich

  "It's ALMOST, MAINE for John Cariani!!!". Interview with TJ Fitzgerald, www.broadwayworld.com. January 4, 2006.

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• I applied, and I got in as a pianist. Their idea in the music department was that pianists, if they were good enough to get in, they were good enough to learn a new instrument. They felt sorry for pianists being alone in the practice room all the time, and they really wanted to socialize us pianists.

  Zeena Parkins

  Sorry, Practice, Ideas

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm not cutting services. But I'm cutting spending. But I may cut Department of Education. I believe common core is a very bad thing. I believe that we should be lo - you know, educating our children from Iowa, from New Hampshire, from South Carolina, from California, from New York. I think that it should be local education.

  Donald Trump

  New York, Children, Believe

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I don't want to toot all of our horns, but the entire design team and this department really pioneered a bunch of things that have never been done before. I think it's a beautiful look. I think it deserves recognition quite frankly.

  Christine Bieselin Clark

  Beautiful, Team, Thinking

  "Exclusive interview with Tron: Legacy costume designer Christine Bieselin Clark". Interview with Toni-Marie Ippolito, www.tribute.ca. November 30, 2010.

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• The first job I got when I was in high school was working for a department store in New York. I worked in the stockroom. That's when I learned that I couldn't work for anyone else, because I was spoken to in a way that I wasn't spoken to at home.

  Frankie Knuckles

  Jobs, New York, Home

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• People thought this was a computer IT gig, and that will flow through those nerdy departments and it won't come into fashion photography, it won't come into television, it won't come into my daily communications, it won't come into my telephone, my microphone, my light control, my microwave radio, my - I mean, just name it.

  Juan Enriquez

  Photography, Fashion, Communication

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The historical side of fashion was very attractive to me when I was a teenager in Moscow, working for the costume departments in various Russian theater companies.

  Alexander Vassiliev

  Fashion, Teenager, Historical

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I don't have individuals that are heroes per say but I will suggest that teachers are heroes for me, our firefighters are heroes for me, our police departments are heroes for me and our leaders are heroes for me.

  John Assaraf

  Teacher, Hero, Firefighter

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.

  Jack Black

  Comedian, Looks, Faces

  "Jack Black: On Music, Mayhem And Murder". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 23, 2012.

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• Terror became a big issue when the Reagan Administration came in. They immediately announced [their plans] and kind of disparaged Carter's alleged human rights programs. The main issue is state-directed international terrorism. Right at that time that big industry developed. That's when you start getting the academic departments on terrorism.

  Noam Chomsky

  Issues, Rights, Administration

  "Anti-Intellectualism, Terrorism, and Elections in Contemporary Education: a Discussion with Noam Chomsky". Interview with Dan Falcone, www.counterpunch.org. June 3, 2016.

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• Hillary Clinton turned the State Department into her private hedge fund. The Russians, the Saudis, the Chinese - all gave money to Bill And Hillary and got favourable treatment in return.

  Donald Trump

  Chinese, Bills, Return

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• [Barack] Obama's executive amnesty has been frozen via a stay by a judge on the appellate court. You remember, this is the judge that discovered the Defense Department lawyers were lying to him in open court, and instead of actually sanctioning them, he demanded that they go to a new ethics course to learn the proper behavior and decorum and the law in court, that you just can't lie with impunity to a judge.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Lying, Law, Judging

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We need a world-wide Department of Peace.

  Anne Waldman

  Needs, World, Wide

  "Push, Push Against The Darkness: An Interview With Anne Waldman On The Iovis Trilogy". Interview with Jim Cohn, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

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• I was associated with the Artist Placement Group in the early 1970s and David Hall, the video artist, was an Artist Placement Group artist. I was completely broke at that time, and he said to me, "Come and do some teaching" - he was head of department at Maidstone College of Art. And I went and did a couple of teaching days and practically the only person who showed up was David Cunningham [Flying Lizard's main man], with all of this finished work

  David Toop

  Art, Couple, Teaching

  "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.

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• The cases involving the question of whether U.S. courts should be open to claims of international human rights violations brought by foreign persons against foreign government officials. And the State Department on the one side has got a very consistent and powerful view that U.S. courts should be open to those claims because there needs to be a place in the world where they can be brought. And those human rights norms ought to be real and enforceable, and we ought to be a beacon to the world.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Powerful, Real, Rights

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• Very quickly the lawyers in the Justice Department pulled together a set of recommendations about how we ought to defend the law as a constitutional matter. And it was the lawyers in the Justice Department who thought that it was important to include the tax power argument as part of it.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Law, Justice, Important

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• When I look at that record in light of the 1985 job application to the [Ronald] Reagan Justice Department, it's even more troubling.That document lays out an ideological agenda that highlights Judge Samuel Alito in belonging to an alumni group at Princeton that opposed the admission of women and proposed to curb the admission of racial minorities.

  Edward Kennedy

  Jobs, Light, Justice

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• While we're over here blocked up in our departments and locked up in our own judgments and dealing with our own crazy problems, they're over there dealing with equivalent problems. One of the things that I am so frightened by lately is that men are having just as difficult a time striking a balance as we are.

  Amanda Palmer

  Crazy, Men, Balance

  "Amanda Palmer: Artist. Music Icon. Crowdfunding Legend. Disrupter. Feminist". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I've speculated about what my life might have been like as a musician, but I'm afraid I came to the conclusion that I probably would've either been teaching piano or maybe gotten to play at Nordstrom's department store.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Teaching, Piano, Play

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Hillary Clinton lived at Wellesley and Yale. Her circle of friends was that Ivy League bunch, and they were all being trained for lives in government. They were all being trained for lives of government: CIA, State Department.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Government, Yale, Ivy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There are two things that matter in a criminal investigation of a subject.What did the person do, and when they did that thing, what were they thinking? When you look at the hundred-years-plus of the Justice Department investigation and prosecution of mishandling of classified information, those two questions are obviously present.

  James Comey

  Thinking, Years, Two

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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