J. Michael Straczynski Quotes
There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.J. Michael Straczynski
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
Barbara Demick -
I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
Mae Jemison -
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
Ferdinand Christian Baur -
It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
Vagit Alekperov -
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
Xavier Becerra
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
Floyd Skloot -
Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
Waris Dirie -
I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
Hal Sparks -
It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
Ingrid Newkirk -
I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
Kat Edmonson -
The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
Iris Chang
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
Lao Tzu -
The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
Ramana Maharshi -
No one person is an island.
Yehuda Berg -
That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.
Hans Jonas -
If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
Lara Logan -
My wife watches me like a hawk.
Carl Icahn
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
Rachel Tucker -
The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
W. Edwards Deming -
My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.
Warwick Davis -
Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.
William Blackstone -
I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.
Fay Wray -
There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.
J. Michael Straczynski