Michael Crichton Quotes

This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.

Michael Crichton

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• When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.

  

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• One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.

  

  Majora Carter
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• I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.

  

  Dan Deacon
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• I like very much to put on fashion shows.

  

  Raf Simons
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• I absolutely consider fashion a form of art. Of course, there is some fashion that is not art at all - it's utilitarian, made for the purpose of covering up. And there are a lot of people out there who put a lot of effort into looking awful. But there are also people putting the same amount of energy into making bad art.

  

  Iris Apfel
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• I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.

  

  Gale Gordon
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• The deepest words of the wise man teach us the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows or the sound of the water when it is flowing.

  

  Antonio Machado
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• Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning.

  

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• My imagination creates my reality.

  

  Walt Disney
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• I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.

  

  Marlo Thomas
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• Even though there were three newspapers in Chicago at the time, he said 'you wouldn't want to compete with your husband," and so instead of doing what I might do now in that situation, I basically saluted and found other things to do.

  

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• Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.

  

  William Cowper
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• the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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• For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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• The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• I started - well, in England it works a little bit differently. You have to do Fringe theatre, which is basically free theatre. You do it in pubs and small theaters and village halls across the country, and you work for a theatre company. You're part of a troupe.

  

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• If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners are corrupt, we must consistently hold up to view an austere morality.

  

  Madame de Stael
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• Thank God for my computer. Sometimes when there is no one to talk to, I talk aloud so that I can get all my thoughts out and try to figure out the issues that I'm having and try, I'm trying to find the answers.

  

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• This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.

  

  Michael Crichton
  • Computer
  • Disease
  • Fascination