Gene Roddenberry Quotes
The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
-
I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
-
As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
-
I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.
-
Uchimura is the greatest of all time.
-
It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
-
I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
-
Intellectually, I am already an old man. But in the sensory area, I am still such a child! I shuffle on my bottom between the two.
-
My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.
-
Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
-
My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.
-
I wasn't born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.
-
I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.
-
There have been times where you do the red carpet in a certain shoe, and you go into the bathroom, you take that shoe off, you put the other shoe on from your purse, and then you walk around for the rest of the night.
-
Normally, in the presence of radiation, communication links fail. But with autonomous robots, you don't need communications.
-
Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
-
An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
-
I like 'Breaking Bad' and 'Game of Thrones.' I like that era. I like that fantasy world.
-
Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
-
In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage ceremony.
-
There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness; we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?
-
It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether they talk or stay silent. You never get tired of watching it. And no matter how rough the waves get, you’re never bothered by the noise the water makes by the commotion of the surface - it never seems too loud, or too wild.
-
Tim Price continues to explore and develop his deeply personal approach to music. Through the years his persistence, determination and passion has enabled him to create a stellar reputation as a multiple woodwind master, composer, producer, author and last but not least educator. Tim is one of the best musicians active today and I'm happy to say he's my friend.
-
The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
