Objective Quotes

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(on the responses to his being vegan) My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark. My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don`t put me in danger. For a while, every meal was the third degree, but when she couldn`t refute any of the thousands of good reasons--my health, simple compassion, the health of the planet, etc., etc.--for being a vegan, she conceded and now is very conscious of what food she makes when I am around--and, I believe, when I am not around. She is lovely. My father never blinked. He is for the most part unflappable. In a good way. Live and let live--unless you are being an asshole. He will privately mock, ridicule, judge, etc. But, hey, who`s gonna cast the first stone? For people who have been through it, made changes, had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me. No, I`m only kidding. It only scares me--I mean, the small-minded. I think if I gave my dad a five-minute rundown on the advantages of veganism, I could convert him without too much trouble. I`ll do it next time I see him. Maybe. I`m not much into the converting business, though.

- Casey Affleck

My father was an avid gardener. On many a summer morning he rousted me out of bed well before sunup and handed me a hoe. We had more than an acre to tend, and the objective was to get as much as possible done before the sun got too high in the sky and the temperature rose above 100. The humidity in that region, while good for the skin and for growing vegetables, is oppressive, and heat exhaustion is always a possibility in summer. On several occasions my thoughts turned patricidal. But as the years have passed, I have grown to appreciate what my dad taught me, not only about growing things in the earth, but also about responsibility and the value of hard, physical work. I now derive physical and spiritual pleasure from gardening. All this galls me a little, because my dad always said it would turn out this way.

- Don Henley

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn`t cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

- Carly Simon

My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don`t put me in danger.

- Casey Affleck

American movies to me - and, I mean, I`ve said this before a million times - are becoming more and more homogeneous because the marketing objective - and marketing now plays such a major role in movies that it almost obliterates everything else - the marketing objective is the lowest common denominator. "You can`t put that in; let`s put the car chase, let`s put the sex scene, let`s put the fight in, let`s get them back together, they end up happily, they walk off into the sun..." So that there`s a formulaic predictability to American movies. That, allied with the cynicism of the way movies are put together - product placement and spin-offs and toys and all kinds of crap that, you know, have nothing to do with the telling of stories - they`ve turned American movies into McMovies. So that when the movie-goer gets his movie, it`s like a hamburger: he doesn`t want a piece of aubergine in there; he wants his onion, his tomato, his hamburger and his bun. And he doesn`t want the bun hard, he wants it soft. And he wants it in two minutes.

- Gabriel Byrne

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don`t have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

- Keanu Reeves

As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don`t criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!

- Loretta Young

The objective of any form of art is not political. I had no political intentions. I am not interested in politics.

- Yimou Zhang

If I`m hip, we`ve got a problem in this country. I really shouldn`t be held up as any model of hipness. If anything I think I`m sort of old school in my approach to objective reporting and not wearing my opinion on my sleeve. There`s a lot of that in American TV news these days. Too much, in fact.

- Anderson Cooper

The reason the state didn`t bring you any objective evidence in this case is because the only objective evidence was in my favor.

- Jennifer Hanson

I mean it`s the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you`re out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It`s the most Darwinian, it`s beautiful, it`s brutal, it works.

- Jim Cramer

It`s her currency. She`s not a bimbo, not a playmate. She has an objective in all this.

- Polly Walker

You know it`s always amazed me - I think the most startling thing that`s happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.

- Brian De Palma

And if you really believe in your heart of hearts that you have the talent, go for it. But you`ve got to make sure you really have the talent. I was watching that TV show, American Idol, and they were showing these auditions. The contestants think in their heart that they`re talented, and the judges would say, `You are appalling. You cannot sing.` And I painfully had to agree. But they really believe that they have something. You need a very objective person to say you`ve got talent.

- Lea Salonga

I`m a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.

- Peter Jennings

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

- Ann Landers

The objective of the Drug Court is really to reduce the number of kids placed out of home -- to cure them of drug addiction in an effort to reduce their delinquency ... and prevent them from being locked up or sent to a placement facility.

- Brad Johnson

If your only objective is to be popular, you`re going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

- Brian Mulroney

We haven`t been happy with the way the war has been handled. The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached.

- Cindy Sheehan

We do not want government interfering in our lives, taking away reasonable freedoms with no good, objective reason to do so.

- Dick Smith

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I`ll show you a man with illusions.

- Henry R. Luce

An objective truth and individual reason are feared above all.

- Jimmy Johnson

I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2.

- Keenen Ivory Wayans

The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get shared government back in business, that is my objective, and we await the IRA statement to see if this will trigger a new dawn.

- Peter Hain

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.

- Robert Trout

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

- Walter Cronkite

We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.

- Waylon Jennings

But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn`t declaim or explain, it presents.

- William Carlos Williams

I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.

- Martin Short

I don`t have an objective overview of Black Sunday.

- Barbara Steele

I think in fact that unless there is an organic link between the subjective impressions of the author and his objective representation of reality, he will not achieve even superficial credibility, let alone authenticity and inner truth.

- Andrey Tarkovskiy

I`m open to comments. I`m open to objective points of view, because I`ve been very narrow and very subjective.

- Richard Donner

I think the film is beautifully realised. His legacy as a journalist was recorded - as it were - well, and certainly the important issues of the `50s - or even today - are delivered and presented to the audience in a rather honest and objective way.

- David Strathairn

Well, we have to provide the world`s best schools. We certainly don`t have them, but that`s our objective.

- Michael Bloomberg

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

- Pope Benedict XVI

Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.

- Christie Hefner

This newspaper is completely and totally objective and unbiased. I don`t want to dignify their insults with comments.

- Michael Hoffman

Our objective will continue to be to finish with a balanced budget,

- Richard White

If your objective is to keep speeds down, I would suggest we eliminate the ban on radar detectors. Drivers who have them pay attention to their speed. If your objective is to write tickets, then we need to keep the ban on radar detectors.

- Joe May

When you`re interviewing someone, even your mother - you have to sort of deal with you have to get some objective space from yourself and the person but you also have to find what`s the best way to get the information from that person.

- James Luca McBride

It was completely balanced, completely objective. That`s what`ll have worried the BBC. Anybody watching that play can see we were right.

- John Kelly

We engaged Lewin to obtain an objective assessment of the potential for savings.

- Thomas Johnson

I don`t feel like my ownership of property in this area affects my ability to make an objective decision,

- Don Edwards

It will be part of our challenge and our objective to meet the needs of our annual budget as well as create funds for new capital projects,

- Scott Barnes

When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior.

- Temple Grandin

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

- George Halas

Deal with it in an objective fashion -- don`t get emotional about it.

- John McKee

The promotions are coming pretty fast for me, but I hope not fast enough to make me lose sight of the primary objective.

- John Randall

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician`s objective. Election and power are.

- Cal Thomas