Jim Barksdale Quotes

Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.

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• I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Earth
  • Like
  • Nothing

• It's healthy to have interests besides books.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Books
  • Healthy
  • Besides

• I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Army

• Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Earth
  • Energy
  • Oil

• I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Different
  • Love
  • Think

• I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Myself
  • Performance
  • Push

• After I won my first amateur fight, I figured I would do fighting on the side while I was going to school. I got an offer after that amateur fight to take a professional fight. The opponent kind of wanted to have an easy win for her pro debt, and they said they'd pay me $1,500. I was like, 'Yeah, might as well get paid for what I was doing.'

  

  Paige VanZant
  • School
  • Fight
  • Pay

• Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Work
  • Real
  • Nature

• Maybe the Burberry woman is undefinable! I think it's less about what she looks like and more about an attitude.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • She
  • Think
  • Woman

• They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • People
  • Me
  • Nice

• I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Together
  • Friend
  • Twins

• The signs, proofs, and evidences of Divine unity are incalculable.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Unity
  • Divine
  • Signs

• It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Me
  • Learn

• Our fates are linked, and we cannot ignore those who are yearning not only for freedom but also prosperity.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Freedom
  • Ignore

• Tishlin’s dubious look indicated he wasn’t totally convinced this phrase contributed enormously to the information-carrying capacity of the language.

  

  Iain Banks

• It has already been observed that women, wherever placed, however high or low in the scale of cultivation, hold the destinies of human kind. Men will ever rise or fall to the level of the other sex.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Men
  • Women
  • High

• Maps had never really been his thing, even during his days under Scorpio in Chasm City. There, it had hardly mattered. Blood’s motto had always been that if you needed a map to find your way around a neighbourhood, you were already in trouble.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • City

• Sad as a wasted passion.

  

  George Eliot
  • Passion
  • Sad

• I can picture certain things in my mind, while writing the script, but then I can also tell that everyone else might be a little confused about what it's supposed to look like at the end of the day. But it all works out. I find a way.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Picture

• I come from an intense family - like, we're just intense people. Not bad people or anything, we are just very intense, and I have just always felt like people who weren't like that were just a kind of hiding it, like when I was really young in high school.

  

  Emory Cohen
  • People
  • Family
  • School

• If the courts regarded tweets and other social media information as private, it would not prevent the law enforcement from getting information it really needs. But the government would have to get a search warrant, which requires it to show that it has probable cause connecting what is being searched to a crime.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Law
  • Search
  • Social Media

• The thing that's going to make artificial intelligence so powerful is its ability to learn, and the way AI learns is to look at human culture.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Culture
  • Powerful
  • Intelligence

• Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.

  

  Jim Barksdale