President Obama and I disagree on policy with Israel. He seems to say… ‘We want peace, but we want to act like Switzerland. We’re going to be a neutral party to everyone.’ I think that’s negotiating from weakness.
This obsession with leadership… It’s not neutral; it’s American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I think it’s killing American companies.
I keep my opinions to myself. I’m neutral – like Switzerland.
I’ve very into grays and neutrals. They match with basically everything.
The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other.
On the speech day, the production designer, who has a lot of say in things, and sometimes I didn’t agree with him but I had to do what I was told, wanted the speech day to be all in neutral colours for the women, which was a good thing.
‘The Wire’ fans are very specific and hard core. Nobody is neutral about ‘The Wire.’ You either love it, or you couldn’t watch it, and there is no in-between.
It was difficult to find my way into ‘I Am Abraham,’ to feel confident enough to inhabit Lincoln’s persona. I began with a prologue in a neutral voice, wrote of Lincoln at the White House with a sly young reporter quizzing him about his humble origins.
There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.
Is it good, bad, or neutral to recognize thematic patterns in your own work? When it comes to recurring themes, I’m of the mind that knowledge is probably not power, at least in terms of the work.
The philosophy of individualism owes a great deal to the tradition of novel-writing and novel-reading. In its development and in its aesthetics, the novel is not politically neutral; it has been a participant in history all along.
In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.
Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.
It used to be an article of faith held across parliament that the government should be ‘technology neutral’ to achieve cost-effective decarbonisation.
I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule.
I think it’s very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don’t have to be morally neutral about terrorism.
In war you’re either a collaborator or you’re a resistor. I mean you don’t get to be neutral.
Shoes are a neutral blessing for us because feet generally aren’t regarded as a place where the battle for self-esteem is won or lost. Feet don’t change size when the body does through the natural ageing process.
I love it when these Internet dudes say to me, ‘Hey man, we just want to be ‘content neutral.’
I’m never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.
Typically, writers meet their subjects at a neutral location – somewhere a publicist has chosen to reveal something about the celebrity, like his taste in food or hobbies or charitable work.
Nature is neutral.
My father values talent. He is colorblind and gender neutral. When Donald Trump is in charge, all that counts is ability, excellence, and effort.
Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‘Oryx and Crake’ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.
Ultimately, I do want us to be a transformative government. I want, when we’ve left, for people to say we’re not just clean-green anymore: we’re carbon neutral, or we’re striving to be.
Ultimately, bridging the practice of forensic science and the public’s need for story may be difficult. We crave narrative, order from chaos, a mystery solved, good guys winning out over the bad ones. But science, and forensic science, should be more neutral and, thus, more nuanced.
I think the idea of journalists being neutral is very important.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Peace is neutral, and not very sexy.
Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out.
Londoners always seem to be fearless and more willing to have fun with their look. New Yorkers tend to play it safer – sticking with neutrals and black. In London, people aren’t afraid to mix patterns and colours.
I was a child during the Lebanese civil war, and I remember Israeli bombardments. So growing up, my view of Israel was completely negative. I’m not coming from a neutral place, but with time, I’ve had to re-examine my thinking.
Black and white is so familiar. It’s how we see the printed word in books, so it’s kind of neutral in a way. Yet it’s ironic that black and white is so charged socially, what with its association with race.
Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.
Most of physics is about energy, and physicists understand inefficiencies. I wanted to write a book about our energy options in a neutral, human-accessible form.
My agent had warned that, while a fine film would do my profile a world of good, a bad one wouldn’t help me at all, and I suspected she was soft-pedalling the latter possibility. The effect of a truly execrable adaptation is worse than neutral. The stink rubs off.
A lot of brands are saying they’re going to make ‘gender neutral’ clothing. But clothing is gender neutral.
Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona legislature have created an environment in Arizona where performing is no longer a neutral act. They have created an environment where they can convert the normal commercial interaction between artists and their fans into the means to apply this racist law.
Sayles could pull a performance out of a dog. I’m serious. He was just amazing. The world could fall apart and he remained on neutral.
We played in a number of these neutral site games, I would call them, whether it’s a playoff game, a bowl game, or one of these kickoff classic type things, which I think is helpful to, you know, our players in terms of playing some place that’s not really a home game for them.
The FCC has made it clear it would punish a cable or phone company for deviating from providing ‘neutral’ access.
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
My very first news director said to me that it’s better to be hated than to have viewers be neutral.
When people talked about O.J. Simpson being race-neutral, that was a race card. It just meant we don’t think of him as black. But race-neutral is just like flesh-tone Band-aids. It’s not neutral; it’s white.
Technology is neutral, but it all depends on the way we use it.
If you use apple in one dish think of using citrus or something more neutral like vanilla in another. You constantly need to be challenging the tastebuds but not assaulting them.
Politics is my second passion, but as a historian, you have to be genuinely neutral. You have failed in your primary duty as a historian if you are one side or the other.
Writing the past is never a neutral act. Writing always asks the past to justify itself, to give its reasons… provided we can live with the reasons. What we want is a narrative, not a log; a tale, not a trial. This is why most people write memoirs using the conventions not of history, but of fiction.
I have a good relationship with Russians, and with Americans. So I’m neutral.
The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.
Mention the name George W. Bush in mixed company, and you’re likely to spark a lot of debate and emotion – hot and cold, good and bad. Not a lot of neutral reaction. He was elected in the most controversial contest in American electoral history and governed during one of the most tumultuous decades.
We all drive differently and have different styles. For me I need a car I can develop beneath me and feel comfortable in. If the car feels neutral and unbalanced it doesn’t work for me.
Gray is great. People think gray is a neutral, but I think it’s such a moody, intense, dramatic and sexy color. It’s very sleek.
Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
I’m always the neutral guy, man. I’m able to bring people together.
