Peter Brimelow Quotes

Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions.

Peter Brimelow

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• In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Decision
  • Young

• I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Days
  • April
  • Along

• You've got to try to guard, make an effort to defend to the best of your ability. You have to rebound the ball, which was an area that was so critical. And they wanted you to play smart and have fun. I've kind of tried to let our people understand those are the most important things that I could possibly tell them.

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Important
  • Fun

• I'm lucky because I don't like being in the sun a whole lot, just because the repercussions for me - I feel it, I go very red.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Sun
  • Red
  • Lucky

• I worked at Starbucks when I was 16... It was all right.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Right
  • Worked
  • Starbucks

• I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • School
  • Friends
  • College

• 'Castle' isn't really affected emotionally by murder. He's thrilled about, 'Oh, my God, I wonder how this happened?'

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • God
  • Wonder
  • Castle

• Unusually for an Indian man of his generation, my father, being aware of my mother's intellectual abilities, encouraged her to go abroad by herself to obtain a Ph.D.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Man

• In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • You
  • Sleep
  • Flying

• So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Want
  • Religion
  • Expectations

• I hate television, but that's me. It's like sucking your thumb. It's a wonderful thing for keeping the masses enslaved.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Me
  • Hate
  • Television

• I'm not quite as anonymous as I was.

  

  Larry David
  • Anonymous
  • Quite

• And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • World
  • Long
  • Remember

• When the time is right, I will do female-centric films.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • Right
  • Will

• It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Ability
  • Happens
  • Pace

• We can do nothing ourselves; God must do it. To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because a natural desire lives in her to give herself completely to someone.

  

  Edith Stein
  • God
  • Nature
  • Desire

• Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Distance

• The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you'll be.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Happy

• To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

  

  Charles Williams

• I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.

  

  Ben Whishaw
  • Confidence
  • Insecurity

• How I feel about and behave toward myself is the basic determinant of most of my behavior. If I improve my self-regard, I will find that dozens of behaviors change automatically. If, for example, I increase my feelings of self-competence, I will probably be less defensive, less angered by criticism, less devastated if I do not get a raise, less anxious when I come to work, better able to make decisions, and more able to appreciate and praise other people.

  

  William Schutz
  • People
  • Decision
  • Criticism

• I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Life
  • Great
  • Reading

• I really think there is a very large distinction between synthetic and naturally occurring drugs. ... I think that these plants 'take people' as much as people take the plants. ... When you take one of these ancient, ancient hallucinogens you are locking in to the morphogenetic fields of all the people who ever took it.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Drug
  • Plant
  • Ancient

• Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions.

  

  Peter Brimelow