Poul Anderson Quotes

All those agonizing philosophical-theological conundrums amount to 'Ask a silly question, get a silly answer.'

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• The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Manipulation
  • Blockchain

• How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Quality
  • Stand

• I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

  

  Ice T
  • Up
  • Men
  • Think

• I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Want
  • Way
  • Story

• People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Loved
  • Bird
  • View

• If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Believe
  • Single

• While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Mad
  • Gone
  • While

• An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Simple
  • Brain
  • Learn

• As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.

  

  Ian Holm
  • Life
  • Responsibility

• I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Political
  • Past
  • Year

• I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Long
  • Soul

• I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • People
  • Long
  • Line

• I can tell you that Rey is an incredibly brave young woman who starts off alone and encounters Finn, and they go on an amazing adventure, and she makes relationships she never could have imagined, and she sees things she never could have imagined.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Alone
  • Amazing
  • Adventure

• I'm a visual thinker, thrill seeker, and I'm easily distracted. I see everything I'm writing, and I think it naturally affects the pace of things.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Everything

• The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • America
  • Down

• I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Science
  • Fashion
  • Myself

• As a trumpet player, I was playing Xenakis, Lindberg: very challenging, technical, atonal, and I enjoyed it.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • Player

• I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Different
  • History
  • Enjoy

• The question for politicians here is fundamental: You can read the polls, or you can change the polls. Stand up on the things you believe in.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Change

• The easier question might be, 'What isn't Alibaba?' The company is only 15 years old, but it has gotten so big over that timeframe that it basically touches every single part of the Chinese economy. I think the simplest comparison to draw is that it is like eBay and Amazon combined.

  

  Kayla Tausche
  • Question
  • Single
  • Chinese

• They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• All those agonizing philosophical-theological conundrums amount to 'Ask a silly question, get a silly answer.'

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Question
  • Silly
  • Philosophical