Poul Anderson Quotes
All those agonizing philosophical-theological conundrums amount to 'Ask a silly question, get a silly answer.'Poul Anderson
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
Ice T -
People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
D. A. Pennebaker -
As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
Felix Baumgartner -
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 -
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
Karl Marx -
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
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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 -
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 -
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 -
I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.
Sam Wyly -
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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.
Sally Phillips -
I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog. I had fun trying to duplicate what I was hearing on these records, only using the instruments I had at hand - an acoustic guitar, and that's all. It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.
M. Ward -
Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.
Earl Weaver -
I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do.
Taylor Sheridan
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I like the moment when I break a man's ego.
Bobby Fischer -
I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
Rachelle Lefevre -
The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
John Lancaster Spalding -
Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.
Wim Wenders -
I try to keeps things pretty light, try to make people laugh. I find it difficult to keep trying to promote myself. I know that's the whole point of it, to promote my music, but I like to use it to be funny and silly.
Ingrid Michaelson -
All those agonizing philosophical-theological conundrums amount to 'Ask a silly question, get a silly answer.'
Poul Anderson