Martin H. Fischer Quotes

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

Martin H. Fischer

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• I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Work
  • Long
  • Interesting

• Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I want to remain that way. I'll talk music, production, writing songs, touring with anyone but keep religion, politics and world affairs off the table, as my expertise is in songs and music.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• You can always find stress in someone's life if you want to. You ask a few questions, and eventually, it's, 'Yes, I admit, I was worried about something recently.'

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Life
  • Stress
  • Questions

• Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Great
  • Death
  • Song

• It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Up
  • God
  • Religion

• My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.

  

  Iman
  • Me
  • Look
  • Cooking

• You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'

  

  Kate Upton
  • Life
  • Love
  • Rest

• We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Today
  • Name
  • Tomorrow

• I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Will
  • Court
  • Call

• I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Research
  • Grateful

• Some people can't sing - like honestly - but they're famous anyway, and they might be famous for being an artist, which is completely different from being a singer.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Different
  • Artist

• It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Men
  • Black
  • Proud

• I tried my hand at photography and worked with a studio for six months.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Hand
  • Photography
  • Six

• My friends, who sleep for all eternity; we do not forget you.

  

  Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  • Friends
  • Sleep
  • Forget

• I'm LeBron, baby. I can play on this level. I got some game.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Game
  • Baby

• With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Passion
  • Purpose
  • Poetry

• It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and, second, civil liberty.

  

  Josiah Strong
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Christian

• We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • Beautiful
  • Black

• It's hard to know what's going to happen when you're filming a reality show, but if you just let life unfold, that's when the best stories evolve.

  

  Natalya Neidhart
  • Stories
  • Happen
  • Reality Show

• In the 'Nike Economy,' there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.

  

  John Sweeney

• Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

  

  Martin H. Fischer