Yusef Lateef Quotes
When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.Yusef Lateef
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
Yves Chauvin -
The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
Edmund Phelps -
Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
Felicia Day -
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov -
I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
Octavia Spencer -
I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
Gary Gygax
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
Victor Webster -
What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
Orson F. Whitney -
Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
Natalie Portman -
Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
Fiona Apple -
I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.
Taylor Wilson
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For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.
Ferran Adria -
To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
Nate Silver -
Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
Daniel Barenboim -
Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
Zadie Smith -
Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
Fidel Castro -
I am - and have always been - a Methodist.
J. Paul Getty
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.
Balthazar Getty -
I'm really interested in the record industry and the artists and the problems they're having.
Jimmy Iovine -
When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.
Yusef Lateef