C. J. Cherryh Quotes

Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.

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• I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Earth

• It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • You
  • Taken
  • Care

• I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Great
  • Myself
  • Beauty

• I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Own

• I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Real
  • History
  • House

• Lauren Conrad has been described as one of the first people to significantly benefit from the popularity of reality TV.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Reality
  • First

• To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Earth
  • Like
  • Saying

• Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • History
  • Dangerous
  • Ride

• For heaven's sakes, in the newspaper days, when we had competing newspapers, and the newsstands sale was as important as the circulation - as the agreed-upon circulation, whatever you call that - in those days, why, gosh, the sensationalism was tremendous.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Important
  • Why
  • You

• Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • Good
  • Focus

• My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • Deep
  • Child
  • Curiosity

• Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Step
  • Ridiculous
  • Sublime

• Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Key

• When I got drafted by Minnesota, and I think I said this a couple weeks ago, I think I felt obligated to bring a Super Bowl to Minnesota.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Think
  • Couple
  • Said

• Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.

  

  Ed Markey
  • America
  • Technology
  • Safety

• All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.

  

  Osman Baydemir
  • Life
  • Change
  • Violence

• Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.

  

  Dan Kildee
  • Free
  • Economy
  • Manufacturing

• We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Live
  • Together
  • Happily

• Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Nature
  • Rules
  • Retaliation

• I love playing ping pong.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis

• I think that, as a woman, it's much healthier and more positive to focus on your good parts and the things you like about yourself, not pick yourself apart.

  

  Miranda Kerr
  • Thinking
  • Focus
  • Yourself

• Thematically, most of my work deals with transition, our culture's constant acceleration, and emotional connection and disconnection through technology.

  

  Marco Brambilla
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Technology

• Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
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