James Van Allen Quotes

These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

James Van Allen

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• Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Lies

• I like to argue with the radio.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Radio
  • Argue

• The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as we make it, so it seems to be entirely free. It seems to be completely up for grabs. But of course it's not.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Up
  • Free
  • Past

• I still tour like a man possessed, because I am.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Tour
  • Possessed

• There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Work
  • Values
  • Hard Work

• Green policy is about triggering a shift to a cleaner way of doing things. To be effective, it needs to incentivise the right behaviour, for example through tax breaks, and that needs to be paid for by disincentives on polluting behaviour.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Doing
  • Green
  • Tax

• Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Men
  • Failure
  • Everything

• We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Children
  • True
  • Mother

• I came from a real working-class show business family.

  

  Sally Field
  • Real
  • Family
  • Business

• All the soul of man is resolution, which in valiant men falters never, until their last breath.

  

  Ian Smith
  • Men
  • Soul

• Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast.

  

  Ben Jonson

• My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived; and as I can do neither good nor evil, I must be borne away by others and meet the common fate.

  

  John Adams
  • Good
  • Country
  • Wisdom

• Ik vind, dat er nog altijd iets moois overblijft, aan de natuur, de zonneschijn, de vrijheid, aan jezelf, daar heb je wat aan. Kijk daarnaar, dan vind je jezelf weer en God, dan word je evenwichtig. En wie gelukkig is, zal ook anderen gelukkig maken, wie moed en vertrouwen heeft, zal nooit in de ellende ondergaan!

  

  Anne Frank
  • God

• People ask me the most naive questions. Someone asked me if we have indoor toilets. I can't get upset. They just don't know.

  

  Rihanna
  • People

• I never feel more confident and comfortable than when I'm wearing a Tom Ford suit.

  

  Matt Bomer

• After struggling for so long in the industry and writing so many failed songs and hearing 'no' for so long - I'm so grateful every time I hear a song that I was a part of on the radio.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period.

  

  Pauly Shore
  • Up
  • Control
  • Period

• The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • War
  • Priority

• The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three seconds. Of course, this is how a child thinks of his mother.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Mother

• I myself saw Yahoo become a $100 billion company and then become a $10 billion company, so you always have to look at valuations with a grain of salt and understand it is a point-in-time measure.

  

  Brian Acton
  • Time

• I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Write
  • Piano
  • Software

• The reporting I did was mostly entertainment or lifestyle. I took a very different approach than most reporters. I approached it more casually than you would think a reporter would. Now I'm a morning radio personality, and radio is really casual.

  

  Eleanor Mondale
  • Different
  • Morning
  • Personality

• These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

  

  James Van Allen