James P. Hogan Quotes
Scientists are the easiest to fool. ... They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors-they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident.
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In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.
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I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.
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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.
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I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are.
Irma S. Rombauer
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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
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I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.
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Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.
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But it is hard to know them flatterers from friends, they are so obsequious, and full of protestations; for as a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
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Fernando Pessoa
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Fernando Pessoa
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It's Friday the 13th. my favorite holiday. Keep it weird.
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Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours-ambition is the serious business of life.
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If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?
Confucius
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That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.
Wallace Stegner
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United States: .... A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.
John Ralston Saul
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If I don't have a script I adore, I do one I like. If I don't have one I like, I do one that has an actor I like or that presents some technical challenge.
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Scientists are the easiest to fool. ... They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors-they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident.
James P. Hogan