David Lagercrantz Quotes

I've always been interested in people who think out of their time, and I have this passion, actually, for science. I'm just so enormously interested in how, when you think of these revolutionary ideas, other people get threatened, especially if you are different.

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• I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.

  

  Imelda May
  • Style
  • Colour
  • Grey

• Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Chance
  • Year
  • Birthday

• When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Great
  • City

• I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Night
  • Day
  • Morning

• It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Fun
  • Role
  • Bull

• Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Souls
  • Corporations
  • Treason

• Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • People
  • Country
  • Animals

• I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Good Friends

• The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Money
  • American
  • Energy

• Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Character
  • Education
  • Spiritual

• I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • School
  • Science
  • Education

• There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • People
  • Flower
  • Presentation

• The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Never

• There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Country
  • Christian
  • Logic

• If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Never
  • Doing
  • Listen

• Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Live
  • You
  • Streets

• Math is one of my favorite subjects.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Math
  • Favorite
  • Subjects

• Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Latin
  • Greek
  • Come

• As a DJ, people expect a certain sound and a certain danceability for the music. As a producer, I really like to let go of any rules that may exist.

  

  Armin van Buuren
  • People
  • Music
  • May

• I was buddies with Dennis Rodman back in the day; actually, I am still buddies with him, and so I have gone to a lot of games and always enjoyed it.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk

• If you sit quiet long enough, you find out what people really think.

  

  Carol Bartz
  • People
  • Long

• For me, it's simple: everybody deserves the same rights.

  

  Belinda Carlisle
  • Simple

• A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Pleasure
  • Philosopher
  • Contemplation

• I've always been interested in people who think out of their time, and I have this passion, actually, for science. I'm just so enormously interested in how, when you think of these revolutionary ideas, other people get threatened, especially if you are different.

  

  David Lagercrantz
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