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- Nov 07, 2020
Ethos Quotes
Words on the spirit behind people and places.
These ethos quotes explore the values and culture behind institutions, art, and ambition, from academic freedom to the driving spirit of Wall Street. See Acting quotes for more on craft and culture.
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- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's something I learned as a philosophy major: The philosophy ethos is, always question, never rest.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents would say to me, 'You can teach yourself anything better than someone else can teach it to you.' That was the whole ethos of my family.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Architecture
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
We believe in a best-in-class vertical strategy, with PR at the center as its operating ethos of earned at the core, social by design.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact remains that secularism is inherent in the Indian system, in the Indian ethos and culture. India cannot but be secular.
- Nov 07, 2020
I understand working-class culture, tribalism and the ethos of violence, so I make films about these things.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I recognise that the whole issue of downloading and intellectual property rights is not an easy one, but on the whole, I'm a fan of downloading, both legal and illegal, and the open-source ethos that it harbours for the future is a good one.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
They have a good ethos at Guildhall in that they basically throw loads of different things at you. Their theory is that after you leave, if you use 10 of those 100 things, that's great. The other 90, you might not agree with or might not work for you as an actor. But if you can find 10 that work for you, then ultimately you leave as a better actor.
- Departments
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- Nov 07, 2020
CIA officers aren't idiots. They knew they were heading into deep water - legally and morally - when they signed up for the interrogation program. That's part of the agency's ethos - doing the hard jobs that other departments prudently avoid.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020