Ian Watson Quotes
I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.
Ian Watson
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I pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.
Kate Brown
Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
Kate Christensen
Watch your finances like a hawk.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
Omar Khayyam
When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
Wadah Khanfar
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
Madame de Stael
I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
Damien Chazelle
My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
Queen Rania of Jordan
I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
Maisie Williams
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
Beatrice Wood
Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
Abdullah II of Jordan
I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
Takeshi Kitano
Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
Frederick Buechner
It's important not to think about Bitcoin as a replacement for cash or gold or something that works alongside that; it's to think of it as programmable money. And we just cannot even imagine what that will be used for.
Naval Ravikant
Lifting weights was important to us because we've been lifting since eighth grade. We both did track in high school and college, and volleyball.
J. M. Roberts
I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.
Ian Watson
