Jerry Pournelle Quotes
Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots.Jerry Pournelle
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
Nadia Comaneci -
While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.
Carl Levin -
Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
Vernon Howard -
I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
Rachel Cusk -
I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
Gary Paulsen -
I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
Laura Lang
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Smoke machines are the best!
Gail Carriger -
God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
Camille Pissarro -
Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
Orlando Bloom -
I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
Natalie Dormer -
Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
L'Wren Scott -
Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
Salvatore J. Cordileone
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I'm an emotional person.
Joanne Rowling -
I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
Damian Lewis -
Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
Ramakrishna -
When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
Aaron Paul -
A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
Olga Kurylenko -
I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
Young Jeezy
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
Ice T -
The only reason investors haven't run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary lengths to sell the narrative that the problems of 2008 have been fixed.
Matt Taibbi -
I don't want my dad to say, 'My daughter is an actress on a TV show.' I want him to say, 'My daughter cares about people.' I would love to know that I'm a role model in Hollywood.
AnnaLynne McCord -
I'm all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Freud and the behaviorists argue that what we are at any given moment is billiard balls whose past determines our future course. That doesn't take into account that we are forever generating internal representations of positive futures and choosing among them.
Martin Seligman -
People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots.
Jerry Pournelle