David Christian Quotes

We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility.

David Christian

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• Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Want

• I haven't actually studied acting at all.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Acting
  • Actually
  • Studied

• Brands like Starbucks came along and talked about their brand as itself being a community, the idea that Starbucks is what they like to call a 'third place,' which is not their idea; it's the idea of basic citizenry needing a place that is not work, that is not home, where citizens gather.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Work
  • Home
  • Community

• I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Amazing
  • Woman
  • Performances

• The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • World
  • May
  • Political

• I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • People
  • Friends
  • Fun

• If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Together
  • Help
  • Game

• Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Good
  • Never
  • Influence

• Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Love
  • Friendship
  • For Her

• The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.

  

  Walter Martin
  • God
  • Remember
  • Jesus

• I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Said
  • Genius
  • Hollywood

• The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • American
  • Know

• I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Different
  • Problem

• People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Believe
  • Politics

• I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Aging

• There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Power
  • Government
  • Judge

• A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Woman

• I am far more a fan of aggressive entrepreneurs than I am of major CEOs. You look at major CEOs, and they are almost to a person quite timid. They don't act to defend the free market principles that are vital to growth.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Principles
  • Market
  • Entrepreneurs

• I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Intelligent

• There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might call the honorary town councillors of the worm universe. In the worm universe, there is nothing unusual about a dairy cow seeking a pair of pliers. A cow is bound to get her pliers sometime. It has nothing to do with me.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Reality
  • Universe
  • Dreams

• There is a reactionary conservative side of classical music, which is not the most exciting side of it. The side that draws me in, there's a real encouragement of risk-taking, going back to masters of that tradition like Beethoven and Bartok and Stravinsky.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Music
  • Real
  • Risk

• It is interesting to note that scientific men all over the world are awakening to the fact that the flesh of animals as food is not a pure nutriment, but is mixed with poisonous substances, excrementitious in character, which are the natural results of animal life.

  

  John Harvey Kellogg
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility.

  

  David Christian
  • Why
  • Universe
  • Vulnerability