Simon Winchester Quotes
Having been in the newspaper business for a long, long time, I often wonder, Why do we actually need to know about something like a bus crash in Bangladesh that has no effect on us at all? That can be nothing other than voyeurism.Simon Winchester
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I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
Beau Bridges -
Call me crazy - I love elk meat!
Zoe Saldana -
My artistic spirit is not nurtured by blogospheres.
Danai Gurira -
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
Camille Paglia -
The people of the Sudan expect a lot from the institution of the presidency, and we should live up to their expectations.
Salva Kiir Mayardit -
In the midst of the heartbreak and wreckage of 9-11, the world also witnessed what is America's greatest strength. Firefighters, nurses, police officers, first responders and local residents worked around the clock to rescue and care for those injured.
Dan Coats
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There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.
Bill Nye -
When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.
David Harvey -
I'm not the sort of fellow who does the same thing all the time. I began using a lot of science fiction apparatus. I came out with the atom bomb two years before it was actually used because I read in the paper that a fellow named Nicola Tesla was working on the atom bomb.
Jack Kirby -
I don't believe in lynching, I just don't support legal action being taken against the KKK
Liz Cheney -
The time to make up your mind about people is never.
Katharine Hepburn -
I don't know. I'm really really really nervous.
Nadine Coyle
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I don't have any regrets about the album [Veedon Fleece]. But it's the same old story - an album is basically 35 or 40 minutes of what you do. It's 'part' of what you do.
Van Morrison -
The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality is the highest act of wisdom.
D. T. Suzuki -
Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
Marjorie Holmes -
We came out of spring believing that they each had a scrimmage or two that they were good at and one or two that they made some mistakes at. Each of them did that and in our mind there was not a separation going into Thursday's practice. I feel it's unfortunate that so many of you in the media have ranked them and have put them in place so that players have to hear that the entire summer. It's really not fair.
Bob Stoops -
Acting under the authority granted me by the North Atlantic Council, I have accordingly decided to terminate with immediate effect the air campaign, which I suspended on June 10.
Javier Solana -
Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the road for eleven years.
Steven Chu
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I laughed out loud and shook my head, "You're crazy!" He nodded, "About you.
Abbi Glines -
Having been in the newspaper business for a long, long time, I often wonder, Why do we actually need to know about something like a bus crash in Bangladesh that has no effect on us at all? That can be nothing other than voyeurism.
Simon Winchester