Bastardization Quotes

#1. The current term of protection for software is the life of an author plus 70 years, or, if it's work-for-hire, a total of 95 years. This is a bastardization of the Constitution's requirement that copyright be for "limited times."

Lawrence Lessig

#2. We are told to cover ourselves up, hide ourselves away, so that other people can have control over us, can make us follow their rules. It is a bastardization of the concept of morality, this rule of shame.

David Levithan

#3. We - again, the, the, the, the bastardization and the demonization over the last few years of teachers and of unions and of collective bargaining, that is not the answer.

Tavis Smiley

#4. Eliminate lobbyists. Eliminate polls. It might even eliminate Congress. If we can know the will of the people at any time, without filter, without misinterpretation or bastardization, wouldn't it eliminate much of Washington?

Dave Eggers

#5. I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're somehow not good actors because we sing and dance.

Laura Benanti

#6. The Christian's whole desire, at its best and highest, is that Jesus Christ be praised. It is always a wretched bastardization of our goals when we want to win glory for ourselves instead of for him.

D. A. Carson

#7. It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model. It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and talking to the individual. Instead, they've hired people to stand around and observe, which is a bastardization of what should be done.

John Mica

#8. Most people still steal music.

Steve Ballmer

#9. In terms of the technology I use the most, it's probably a tie between my Blackberry and my MacBook Pro laptop. That's how I communicate with the rest of the world and how I handle all the business I have to handle.

John Legend

#10. every Chinese person is familiar with Kongzi, or 'Master Kong', as Confucius is known in Chinese.

Meher McArthur

#11. I would be lucky to be remembered as Harry Crane. That being said, I think it's a goal for most actors to have the opportunity to play a variety of characters, so I hope any non-'Mad Men' role feels as separate as possible from Harry.

Rich Sommer

#12. I've got a good shepherd; you've got a sadistic dentist.

Amy-Jill Levine

#13. You start a project as a young person and then at the end you are another person. You are ready to go for your pension.

Santiago Calatrava

#14. It might have been the first time in my life I understood what an easy bond it was, to share a neighborhood as we had done, to share a time past.

Alice McDermott

#15. Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.

Anne Wilson Schaef

#16. I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.

M. Night Shyamalan

#17. Sadness and anger aren't vampiric. If you let them, they'll follow you around the world, sunshine and stakes be damned.

Karina Halle