Jane Haddam (Orania Papazoglou) Quotes
Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.
Quotes to Explore
-
The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
-
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
-
One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
-
I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
-
I don't know who Little Richard is.
-
Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley. Most people don't want Ferraris, they want a winning seed investment.
-
The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
-
Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
-
I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
-
More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
-
The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
-
It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
-
This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
-
I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
-
I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.
-
In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
-
I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
-
To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.
-
When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.
-
There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.
-
The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse - it will not submit to the mold of flattery.
-
They loved, and quarreled, and made up, and loved, and fought, and were true to each other and untrue. She made him the happiest man in the whole world and the most wretched, and after a few years she died, and then, when he was thirty, he died, too. But by that time Catullus had invented the love poem.
-
In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.
-
Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.
