Charles Olson Quotes

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

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• Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Fear
  • Kind
  • Born

• I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Think
  • Environment
  • Easy

• I'm having a good time. Managing my things takes a lot of time.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Time
  • Good
  • Good Time

• By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Up
  • Years
  • Build

• Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Important
  • Real
  • Me

• I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Little
  • Got
  • Tomboy

• I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Music
  • Career
  • Interested

• What can you do? You're never going to be - I'm sure there are people out there who think Cindy Crawford isn't pretty.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Think
  • Pretty

• There are a bunch of images that are thrown in our faces all the time about what we're supposed to look like at 14, 15, 16. It's confusing. I think every woman can identify with that struggle.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Time
  • Woman
  • Struggle

• The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Slavery
  • Medical

• I make my own face exfoliant at home, using finely ground rice powder mixed with milk or yogurt. I also treat my skin to a honey, rose water, glycerine and lemon face pack. The honey moisturises, and the lemon removes impurities.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Home
  • Water
  • Rose

• At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Shoes
  • Company
  • Brand

• Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Family
  • Farm
  • Crop

• I'm actually not on Twitter.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Actually
  • Twitter

• When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Life
  • Need
  • Structure

• We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Trying
  • Responsibility
  • Organization

• Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Country
  • Respect
  • Responsibility

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• I find that working with friends is always the goal, even if it's just one person. Because the comedy community is kind of insular, it's easy to run into people you've worked with, even if you worked with someone on something for a day, or whatever.

  

  Lizzy Caplan
  • People
  • Friends
  • Community

• The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • People
  • Fear
  • Desire

• As you travel though life, offer good wishes to each being you meet.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Life
  • Travel
  • Meet

• Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Truth
  • Religious
  • Identity

• You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

  

  Charles Olson
  • Truth
  • Interesting