Esther Dyson Quotes
And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.Esther Dyson
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
Karl Lagerfeld -
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
Jacob Epstein -
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
Florence Nightingale -
I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people.
Hans Blix -
The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself.
S. Jay Olshansky
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Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.
Ma Jian -
I'm not a car person. Three years after 'The Da Vinci Code' came out, I still had my old, rusted Volvo. And people are like, 'Why don't you have a Maserati?' It never occurred to me. It wasn't a priority for me. I just didn't care.
Dan Brown -
Love is the outreach of self toward completion.
Ralph W. Sockman -
It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the reader.
L.A. Weatherly -
I loved doing 'Homeland.' I loved playing Brody.
Damian Lewis -
Our company is very diversified, both in terms of geography and in terms of products.
Baba Kalyani
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In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.
Gale Norton -
There is such a thing as Literary Fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and cocks our hats.
Isaac D'Israeli -
A satellite has no conscience.
Edward R. Murrow -
Mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience; all else is remote inference.
Arthur Eddington -
One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.
Donald Johanson -
I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.
Donna Mills
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The safari was amazing, to actually see the elephants and the Lions up close and then right at the end to actually get in the cage with the Lion was one of the best moments of the tour.
Ugo Monye -
When it was first proposed, I was willing to support it as a 'transitional fuel' because it had some clear advantages for Hawaii. Much has changed since then. LNG will no longer save us any money.
David Ige -
Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is
A. R. Rahman -
You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.
Benicio Del Toro -
I tend to go to the theater a lot. Ive always loved it.
Sophie McShera -
And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.
Esther Dyson