Brenda Laurel Quotes

I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborate clumsiness on my part is actually something people will pay me for. It's quite wonderful.

Brenda Laurel

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• This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Work
  • Me
  • Interested

• If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Business
  • Man
  • Chance

• Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Years
  • Go
  • University

• Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Time
  • Different
  • Experience

• I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • People
  • Parents
  • Famous

• If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Wind

• When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Kind
  • Ever
  • Belt

• At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Me
  • Acting
  • Walking

• I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Done
  • Always
  • Digital

• If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Me
  • Football
  • Laugh

• I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Men
  • Home
  • Remember

• The catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons require that it be treated as a top priority. Disarmament will work better than any alternative in reducing the risk of use.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Risk
  • Better

• Man knows so much and does so little.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Man
  • Intelligence
  • Little

• Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Life
  • Dance
  • Pleasures

• I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.

  

  Young Thug
  • Want
  • Forever
  • Rap

• I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Process

• I never get the feeling that I've decided rationally, cold-bloodedly to write a story. On the contrary, certain events or people, sometimes dreams or readings, impose themselves suddenly and demand attention.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Attention

• I was afraid people wouldn't take me seriously, or would stop respecting me, if I talked about how bad I was feeling. The only people I talked openly about it with was my business partner, Dave Jilk, and my girlfriend - now wife - Amy Batchelor. They were amazingly supportive, but even then, I was deeply ashamed about my weaknesses.

  

  Brad Feld
  • People
  • Business
  • Bad

• I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Life
  • Work
  • Hard Work

• A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people.

  

  Mary Landrieu
  • People

• When people think of the South Side of Chicago, they don't think about where I'm from. It was sort of a pocket: this idyllic community of black people who took care of each other, knew each other, spent time with each other.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • People
  • Time
  • Black

• I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborate clumsiness on my part is actually something people will pay me for. It's quite wonderful.

  

  Brenda Laurel
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying