David Christian Quotes
If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.David Christian
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If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
Nate Silver -
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
Earl Nightingale -
White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Unless I'm on a stage, I don't want to be the event in someone's day.
Frances McDormand -
Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.
Garry Shandling -
I've never seen hard work fail.
Zach LaVine
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I am an analog, slide-rule kind of guy.
Baba Kalyani -
The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.
Ram Dass -
But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.
Garrett Hardin -
I love love, and I love life. I love. I just love. It's just great. It's the most enduring element we have is love.
Gary Busey -
It took a lot for me to be able to say that I'm a plus-size model or a model at all without feeling terror or this kind of panic, because it was something so unplanned.
Paloma Elsesser -
A peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will likely depend to a great extent on the economic development of a future Palestinian state. As I have argued before, private sector investment - especially in the West Bank - is going to prove crucial in creating the right political and social context for peace.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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I went to underground music studios. In the studios, I learned that you can make a movie without a permit.
Bahman Ghobadi -
My approach to acting is the 'let's pretend' school of acting.
Harrison Ford -
Just because something is on trend, it might not work for you.
Victoria Justice -
A work based only on a line concept is scarcely more than a illustration; it fails to achieve pictorial structure. Pictorial structure is based on a plane concept. The line originates in the meeting of two planes ... we can lose ourselves in a multitude of lines, if through them we lose our senses for the planes.
Hans Hofmann -
Gale and Shapley assumed that each person has a given ranking among potential mates that determines rather than is determined by the equilibrium sorting.
Gary Becker -
Oh, I'm not beautiful. I can look beautiful; I can put beauty on. When I'm tired, I look bloody awful. I think I'm turning into the actress from 'Dynasty,' Linda Evans.
Joanna Lumley
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I also collaborate a lot with friends, like Darrell Smith, or Carl Burnett, or Paul Brown, my co-producer. Quite often it’s a jamming thing; we’ll just sort of hang, and come up with ideas, and if it’s something we like, we’ll hack away at it.
Boney James -
One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.
Pete Seeger -
Political courage requires clarity.
Joe Klein -
I think a misconception among many non-religious people is that anyone with a strong faith is, in all ways and at all times, blindly consistent, unwavering, unquestioning.
Alice McDermott -
I was interested with exploring the idea of who gets to be in possession of the land - how it's sometimes impossible to go back home, how family can be the thing that drags you down.
Dee Rees -
If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.
David Christian