Chris Carter Quotes
I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies is 'All the President's Men.' Woodward and Bernstein, those guys were my heroes. I have a degree in journalism.Chris Carter
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I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
Karen Thompson Walker -
Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
Karl Liebknecht -
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
Manuel Puig -
What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
Fay Godwin -
By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
Iain Banks
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
Gary Lockwood -
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Fannie Hurst -
The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
Jaan Tallinn -
I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
Manuel Puig -
Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
Ian Hacking -
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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There is no better high than discovery.
E. O. Wilson -
I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters -
The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
Frances Beinecke -
The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.
Natasha Lyonne -
I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
Aasif Mandvi -
There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
Walt Mossberg
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It's not always about gold medals, I think. It has to be about development, and we are missing that in U.K. at the moment.
Lizzie Armitstead -
Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
Barbara Castle -
If you are not making any mistakes, you are being excessively risk-averse. Investing involves risk, and that means you will occasionally be wrong. And although it is okay to be wrong, it is not okay to stay wrong.
Barry Ritholtz -
He’s not really a religious man, but he knows which side his bread’s buttered on. The churches pay his salary, so he doesn’t want anyone rocking the boat with unorthodox rumours.
Alastair Reynolds -
I'm not a politician and my other habits are good.
Charles Farrar Browne -
I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies is 'All the President's Men.' Woodward and Bernstein, those guys were my heroes. I have a degree in journalism.
Chris Carter