Damon Dash Quotes

My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

Facts are important to me, not emotions. I would caution against speculation.

I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered.

Judges have to be neutral, but they don't have to be eunuchs.

There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved.

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

You can say I give you this information as a dispassionate observer.

I'm very good in math, and I'm a logical thinker. I don't get wrapped up in things or even wrapped up in myself.

I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking.

The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.

There's nothing wrong with changing your position to fit the facts; there's everything wrong with changing the facts to fit your position.

I am as dispassionate as it is possible for a human being to be and not be a machine.

We are speaking to the intelligence of Canadians, not to their emotion.

I don't make decisions with my heart, I use my brain to think things through.

You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane. And I think it is. I've had a lot of time to think about that. And what I keep coming back to is [her] dying declaration: 'So you understand that when we increase the number of variables, the axioms themselves never change.'

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa.

RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

We would completely delegitimise what we are doing if we allow politics to interfere with our work.

Look at the facts as they truly are, not as you want them to be.

I'm the type of person who responds to facts.

When I concentrate, my face is deadpan and I can see there is a coldness there - when I'm making business decisions I know I can be quite dispassionate.

I kind of look at things from a very common-sense point of view.

I am not someone who is afraid; I am someone who reasons.

The decision to serve needs to be independent of your politics.