Quotes About Values

I don't want to pump myself full of collagen. That's not what I'm about.

In my family, my earliest memory of you get out of line is - BAM! It was a lot of corporal punishment. But you can't do that.

I wanted to say I don't agree with capital punishment.

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence - you know, the things that I want my own daughters to develop - the idea that we're going to get there through rewards and punishments seems completely at odds with the idea of character itself.

I'm finding out what part of punk culture or white indie culture I actually still want to hold onto - What are the values? What are the contributions that I actually like? - and it not coming from a place of desperation or wanting to be embraced or wanting approval, essentially.

Good Charlotte are a band with punk values - they look it, they grew up on the music, and they believe in the punk ethos.

I still live very much by punk ethics, but in a more grown up way.

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

When I am disgusted by certain American politicians, I fantasize moving away to Finland - a country in which I have worked a little, and which I see as a pure blue and green place of unpolluted lakes, peaceful forests, and pristine social-democratic values.

The majority of the time, we try to hire the best people that we can get just to make the best films, and I think that's something that Pure Flix has been known for the movies we produce on the budgets that we do... our production values have elevated this genre.

Women have to be pure and respectful.

Yet I never want to make a movie purely for the money.

When you act, you really have to give all of yourself, and if you're doing that purely for money, it's not healthy.

I'm pretty old-fashioned. I feel most people - and this is purely from observation; I'm not an expert - but I think most people want to get married, whatever one might say about the institution of marriage, especially if you are in a long relationship.

There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But that gray area where people abide, between their ears or on the Internet, needs to be fleshed out more in terms of permission granted.

You can't understand America without understanding the Puritans. In many ways, we're still living out their legacy in ways that are good and bad.

I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.

For a firm to be exceptional, it has to be led by purpose. Our purpose is to make an impact that matters.

Chick-fil-A is what it is today because of its people, purpose and product.

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.

Every day we have to live our lives with greater respect and purpose.