John Charles Polanyi Quotes

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

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• Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Policy
  • Foreign Policy

• Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Evolution

• In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Life
  • World
  • Game

• The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • People
  • Time
  • Freedom

• My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Know

• More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Women
  • Country
  • Respect

• You want your coach's blessing.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Want
  • You
  • Blessing

• I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Die
  • Beginning
  • Hands

• It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Stop

• I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Hate
  • Husband

• Any mechanism that will ensure benefits to consumer, any mechanism that will ensure that we do not waste food grains, any mechanism that helps the poorest of the poor is a welcome step.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Food
  • Step
  • Welcome

• I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Movie
  • Like
  • Brain

• You never realise that you have an impact on people's lives. There are so many girls that go through so many problems and who come to me. I really try and take time to speak to as many people as possible.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Time
  • Impact

• The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Up
  • Time
  • High

• With any relationship that goes on and is productive over a long period, there have to be some sort of interlocking qualities in those personalities that make it possible to survive.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Long
  • Relationship
  • Period

• And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Happy
  • Always
  • Climb

• Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Work
  • Husband
  • YouTube

• I don't golf. I've never golfed. I will never golf.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Never
  • Golf
  • Will

• The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Art

• In any business opportunity, you'd be looking, probably, primarily at the risk and return. Some business can be very risky with a low return; what you want is the lowest risk with the biggest return.

  

  John Caudwell
  • Business
  • Opportunity
  • Risk

• By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.

  

  Aldrich Ames
  • Term
  • Deals
  • Late

• Love always looks nice. I don't really know anyone who doesn't enjoy it when they see it. Anyone who doesn't, I don't really want to know them.

  

  Catherine Ryan Hyde
  • Want
  • Nice
  • Enjoy

• One of the main secrets to staying young is staying healthy. I've sometimes had to suppress a smile when some young lady, who has obviously not taken care of herself through diet or exercise, says admiringly, 'Ooh, I hope I look as good as you do when I'm your age!' Although it's intended to be complimentary, it's actually a back-hander.

  

  Joan Collins
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Age

• In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

  

  John Charles Polanyi
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  • Democracy