Esther Dyson Quotes

I would like to see us shake-in, instead of a shakeout, in the sense that it's true that there's a lot of junk online, and we have to filter it and so forth.

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• The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Fun
  • Kid
  • Favorite

• War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Good
  • Money
  • War

• The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Song
  • Me
  • Innocent

• I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Great
  • Moving

• We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • World
  • Money
  • Success

• If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Writer

• What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.

  

  Edith Head
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Different

• I don't consider this hard work. I love it, and I think I get to make a difference. I really believe in Secretary Clinton, and I want to feel like I'm part of making a difference; I really do.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Love

• Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • May
  • History
  • Dating

• Dressing is a way of life.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Life
  • Way
  • Dressing

• Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Friend
  • Enemy

• A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Future
  • Past
  • Chicago

• If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Formula
  • Torn
  • Hiroshima

• I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a technique, in anything and everything but that in which God has placed it—His Word. He alone has the power to change lives for eternity, and that power is focused on the Scriptures.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Power
  • Today

• You need to find the power within to make [things] happen for yourself. When you realize this, you are unstoppable.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Power
  • Girl
  • Realizing

• I lose myself in my performances so I wouldn't say that I ever act on stage. I don't find it to be an acting drill for me. I just find it to be something very real that comes from a very gut-driven, honest place.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Real
  • Acting
  • Honest

• What activities, behaviors, or decisions have been most responsible for your success in life? Do more of them.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Success
  • Decision

• I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Always
  • Liberty
  • Traditions

• We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Men
  • Peace

• I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Sense
  • Twenties

• You have to operate from the sense of everything is new and you're starting again.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Sense
  • Starting
  • Operate

• I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • People
  • Always
  • Down

• I would like to see us shake-in, instead of a shakeout, in the sense that it's true that there's a lot of junk online, and we have to filter it and so forth.

  

  Esther Dyson
  • Sense
  • Online
  • Junk