Frank Herbert Quotes
Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.
Quotes to Explore
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. It's a privilege.
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.
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How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.
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I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.
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I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds which feel realistic and familiar to me, or who can make me feel inspired.
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I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.
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I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.
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A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.
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Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.
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It took a lot to get attention in my family. No wonder I'm an actress.
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Name any issue in the world, I can tell you how technology is intertwined with it. I can tell you how technology will make it better. How it can make it worse. It needs to be part of everything that we do, whether you are a government or a company or a citizen.
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I never want to be the woman that's telling other women what to do.
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Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.
