Bill Dedman Quotes

What are the odds that a nuclear emergency like the one at Fukushima Dai-ichi could happen in the central or eastern United States? They'd have to be astronomical, right?

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• The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • True
  • Language
  • Symbolism

• When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • More
  • White

• Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Done
  • Look
  • Disney

• N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.

  

  Nas
  • New York
  • Brave
  • Hip Hop

• Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Think
  • Movies
  • Phenomenal

• It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Movie
  • You
  • Story

• The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Me
  • Play
  • Pressure

• It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • People
  • Music
  • Poetry

• I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Sleep
  • Imagination
  • Partner

• I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Happy
  • Poetry

• At about an age when most children start full time schooling, hundreds of thousands of their contemporaries start a lifetime of drudgery in factories and fields, working 12-16 hours daily.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Time
  • Children
  • Age

• No, I think I used to be pretty superstitious about certain things, but I'm really not anymore. As long as I have everything is in order and I have my things as far as the match goes, shooting I'm fine. But I really don't.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Long
  • Think
  • Pretty

• It's very alarming to see what's happening in the Muslim world. And it's about time we come to our senses and realize that moderation is the only path that will ensure peace and stability for the Muslim world, and for the wider world.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Time
  • World
  • Peace

• I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Words
  • Fight
  • Coward

• Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Want
  • Winter
  • Fast

• My view is that the bitcoin is in its very early days, and it is an artificial currency. But whether it is creating new money, whether it is sustainable, whether it would survive - I have many questions about it.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Money
  • Questions
  • View

• I found myself sort of becoming a character actor, though I don't know if that would be my natural makeup.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Character
  • Myself
  • Makeup

• I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay - nurses, hairdressers, designers - people who just had a different way about themselves.

  

  Pam Grier
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Discipline isn't a dirty word. Far from it. Discipline is the one thing that separates us from chaos and anarchy. Discipline implies timing. It's the precursor to good behavior, and it never comes from bad behavior. People who associate discipline with punishment are wrong: with discipline, punishment is unnecessary.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • Discipline
  • Word
  • Chaos

• Chess players, people who travel all over the world, should be trusted or else not sent anywhere at all. Why are these four people (Antoshion and three other official 'minders') sent along to supervise us? With their meagre experience, all that thay did was interfere, more than ever before. And when they were needed, they weren't to be found.

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Heart
  • Man

• Since I'm homeschooled, I don't get much kid interaction, so I started at this gym and I got to meet other kids. I actually met one of my best friends there; we hang out all the time.

  

  Jake Short
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Friends

• What are the odds that a nuclear emergency like the one at Fukushima Dai-ichi could happen in the central or eastern United States? They'd have to be astronomical, right?

  

  Bill Dedman