Daniel Pipes Quotes

Israelis must be encouraged to defeat the Palestinians.

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• I'm truly blessed with great genes. I've never done anything drastic in my life, and I can proudly say I haven't tried any of those crazy fad diets, either. I believe in eating right and living healthy. Plus, I love going to the gym, and I enjoy yoga because it streamlines your body.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Blessed

• I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • Music
  • Long
  • Country

• Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to 'keep him in his place.'

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • War
  • Opportunity
  • Growing

• I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Like
  • Things
  • Make

• There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Two
  • Principle
  • Alike

• It is important not to trust people too much.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Important
  • Trust

• I was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written, about when she used to work in a strip club. After the first week, I was told not to come back.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Work
  • Job
  • Film

• Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Writing
  • Strong
  • You

• I'm not an angry kind of person. What I am is a principled person.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Person
  • Angry
  • Principled

• It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • True
  • Movie
  • Hand

• Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Work
  • You
  • Silver

• With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Why
  • Want
  • Year

• I grew up loving computers and math, actually. I also loved English literature and French, but I became obsessed with computers when the Apple II was coming out.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Up
  • English
  • Literature

• I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

  

  Sally Field
  • Great
  • Years
  • Deal

• I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Golf
  • Last

• Lasker mouthed, 'Trust him,' and Max sighed. Trust a lawyer? It flew in the face of his most cherished principles.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Trust
  • Lawyer

• The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

  

  Edward Gibbon
  • Waves

• Do not mistake energy for enthusiasm; the softest speakers are often the most enthusiastic of men.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Men
  • Energy
  • Mistake

• I'm just cruising, doing me, having a good time and focusing on getting better.

  

  Alistair Overeem
  • Time
  • Good

• It is my mission to put sensible and evidence-based information above politics and exaggeration.

  

  Carl Hart

• I always wonder when people have any kind of spiritual and meditative practice especially if it's one designed in part to help them cope with things that seem unmanageable and to cope with something like death, if they're able to maintain that practice and maintain the equanimity at the time of death whether it's, you know, that person's or that person's loved one.

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • Help
  • Death
  • Wonder

• I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Imagination
  • Film
  • Term

• The average woman is a size 14 but 'plus' models start at a size six. The industry wants you to feel bad about yourself, and they succeed. I find it to be disgusting.

  

  Whitney Thompson
  • Yourself
  • Succeed
  • Industry

• Israelis must be encouraged to defeat the Palestinians.

  

  Daniel Pipes