Paul Bloom Quotes

I think what a lot of fiction is, is the imagining of the worst so as to prepare ourselves.

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• The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Music
  • Job
  • Sleep

• Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Up
  • Always
  • Dance

• Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • High
  • Chinese
  • Consumption

• In Germany, of course, the Holocaust will always be in our history and a big stain on our lives.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • History
  • Will
  • Holocaust

• Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Nature
  • Control
  • Paranoid

• Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • War
  • Help
  • Better

• I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Job
  • Know
  • Nervous

• History can never be covered up.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • Up
  • History
  • Never

• Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • New
  • Fault
  • Globalization

• I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Artist
  • Get
  • Comfort Zone

• I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Performance
  • Separate
  • Critical

• You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Work
  • Music
  • Want

• He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Power
  • Best
  • Wind

• As a veterinarian and lover of animals, I feel the time is now to stop the practice of horse soring for good.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Time
  • Good
  • Stop

• Humans are very good at dreaming, although you’d never know it from your television.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Good

• When you hear that a certain man is so good that he wants to help everybody, you may depend upon it that he started the story.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Good
  • May
  • Help

• Money only buys the illusion of power. Real power is in the force of will - will strong enough that others bend to it for its own sake, and follow it willingly. Power that is won through deception will evaporate under the hot light of truth.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Real
  • Money
  • Power

• Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk out on stage, and you have a minute to hook them, or they'll start booing. As a writer, it's very similar. A reader doesn't have time to say, 'I'll give him 50 pages, as it's not very good yet, but I hope it'll get better.'

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Mind
  • Sleep
  • Bed

• My mother was a consulting dietician, and my father was a consulting engineer.

  

  Kimbal Musk
  • Mother
  • Father

• You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.

  

  Phil McGraw
  • Present
  • Horse

• When I graduated, everyone was like, 'You got to do pop and R&B to make it,' like very contemporary pop and R&B. I tried for a little while, but I just realized my voice wasn't quite fitting some of the records that I was doing.

  

  Andra Day

• I think what a lot of fiction is, is the imagining of the worst so as to prepare ourselves.

  

  Paul Bloom