Poul Anderson Quotes

Man does not live by bread alone, nor guns, paperwork, theses, naked practicalities.

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• I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Family
  • Support
  • Doing

• I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Love
  • Song
  • Night

• From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Inspiration

• Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles in film. I'd be honoured. But I don't know if it will actually happen. I'm just happy with the idea of being associated with it. It's nice there's a lot of good will.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Dream

• I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.

  

  Patrick McHenry
  • People
  • Winning
  • Thought

• You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • High
  • Want
  • You

• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Great
  • New
  • New York

• I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Great
  • Understand
  • Flawed

• Americans are not saving enough for retirement.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Enough
  • Retirement
  • Saving

• I believe everyone is mad when they are in love, and I don't think that can ever end.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Believe
  • Love
  • End

• A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • People
  • Innovation
  • Selfish

• If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Music
  • Today
  • Moving

• You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Happy
  • Team
  • Day

• I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Up
  • House
  • Player

• I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Up
  • Great
  • Said

• Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Peace

• Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Life
  • War
  • Die

• There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Heart

• As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Character
  • Respect

• I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

  

  Marie Antoinette
  • Long
  • Children
  • Mother

• I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Live
  • Challenge
  • Teach

• We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Live
  • New
  • Four

• Know your lines; otherwise, have an open mind because you want to get lost in the moment. When you have talented actors and directors to work with, then it's pretty easy to do.

  

  Dave Bautista
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Pretty

• Man does not live by bread alone, nor guns, paperwork, theses, naked practicalities.

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Live
  • Alone