Chelsea Cain Quotes

Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.

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• It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.

  

  Young Buck
  • Me
  • Story
  • Honor

• I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Care
  • Leadership
  • Forced

• I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Independent

• I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.

  

  Imelda May
  • Live
  • Art
  • College

• ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Technology
  • Best
  • Chicago

• A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

  

  Sam Keen
  • People
  • Job
  • Society

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Early
  • Influenced
  • Ventures

• If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Done
  • You
  • Muse

• I wrote a techno song about the four things I love in Germany to make myself happy, which are my grandfather, my two poodle pets, bread, and a strange but delicious Turkish dish called Doener Kebab.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Song

• I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.

  

  Zack Wheat
  • Speed
  • Ball
  • Course

• I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Trying
  • Hope

• Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Words
  • Nothing
  • Equal

• Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Way
  • Walking
  • Cognitive

• I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Everything
  • Genre
  • Almost

• I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • School
  • Very
  • Georgia

• I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'

  

  Gary Jennings
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Up
  • Great
  • Different

• Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires?

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Desire

• Nowadays, the truth is, I think a lot of the newer generation of action stars usually are pretty self-deprecating and cool. I mean, Dwayne Johnson is a great example.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Pretty

• The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

  

  Buddha
  • World
  • Truth
  • Wise

• You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny.

  

  Auberon Waugh
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.

  

  Chelsea Cain
  • Truth