Bryant H. McGill Quotes

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

Bryant H. McGill

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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.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Career
  • Myself
  • Poetry

• I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Universe
  • Care
  • Revenge

• Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Why
  • Free

• Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Different
  • Country
  • Wisdom

• I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Good
  • Think
  • Carpenter

• We've never been anti-Semitic.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Never
  • Been
  • Anti-Semitic

• Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Great
  • Chinese
  • Asset

• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • Education
  • College

• Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Sound
  • Strange
  • Table

• Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Dreams
  • Expression
  • While

• Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'

  

  Samantha Power
  • Long
  • Political
  • Education

• Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Yourself
  • Find

• Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Life
  • World
  • Remember

• And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Music
  • Think
  • Like

• Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Politics

• Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Future
  • Myself
  • Destiny

• God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • God
  • Heaven
  • Loved

• When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Band

• There's a certain type of theatre that I haven't got any time for at all - established, boring, same-old stuff without any reason or passion. There's quite a lot of it about, and it motivates me to try to do something different, something risky, raw, ugly, and challenging.

  

  Marianne Elliott
  • Time
  • Different
  • Passion

• Get the shading right, the lighting right, and there are things you can do to make the CGI look more real. People end up going crazy and give themselves a little too much freedom in how they use CGI, and if you overuse it, it draws attention to itself.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • May
  • Goal
  • Obstacles

• We worked with Jean-Marc Vallée on Big Little Lies in terms of finding style. Because when you have five women, you're trying to find how they each dress and how they present themselves to the world.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Women
  • Style
  • Present

• As I continue to develop my relationship with Him, I have discovered that God is a nice guy.

  

  Ben Carson
  • God
  • Guy
  • Relationship

• Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • May
  • Nature