H. Beam Piper Quotes

And when someone makes a statement you don't understand, don't tell him

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• In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Acting
  • Find
  • Realistic

• The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.

  

  Walter Salles
  • America
  • Film
  • Latin

• We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Time
  • Today
  • Wednesday

• No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Learning
  • Something

• Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • People
  • Forget
  • Legal

• In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Women
  • Family
  • Home

• This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Music
  • Country
  • Remember

• I definitely like to play characters that don't fit any kind of mold; that are slightly offbeat, because it's more fun to play.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Like

• Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Country
  • Money
  • Culture

• I lived in New York for seven years, although I was always in denial about it. Even though I had an apartment there, I always pretended I was just visiting. I do love New York. But I'm a Londoner at heart.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Heart
  • Always
  • Denial

• Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Music
  • Important
  • Day

• Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • American
  • Study
  • Competition

• It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Time
  • Take
  • Studio

• It had been my idea that a combination of purebred cattle and horses could be successful from an economic standpoint - in Maryland. Maryland is not a cattle state. To raise beef cattle successfully, you've got to be able to raise cheap feed.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • You
  • Successful
  • Economic

• I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Healthy
  • Youth
  • Debate

• More people would recognise me in Kingston, but it's rare to go on the road and not get recognised by someone. The problem now is everyone has a camera in their pocket, on their cell phone - at the airport it's difficult to get from point A to point B without taking half an hour because there are so many people taking pictures.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Road
  • Cellphone

• I prefer the Telugu film industry, as women are respected more than they are in the Tamil film industry. In Tamil cinema, they care only about their hero, who is God.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • God
  • Women
  • Hero

• We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Teach
  • Lot
  • Other

• I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Reading
  • Doubt
  • Revolution

• A brave heart? It feels like a swollen and aching thing in my chest.

  

  Lisa See
  • Heart
  • Brave
  • Chest

• I'm not one of those actors who gets so taken by a role that I can't live my life. I'm the type of actor who goes to work, transforms into a character, takes you on a journey, and then comes back home to be Billy. When I'm in it, I'm in it, but I know how to get out of it. When you can't shut it off, you're a crazy person. I'm not crazy.

  

  Billy Porter
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• Antonio Gramsci said that social reformers should have pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will. This means that one must have the intellectual ability to see how bad things are and the emotional ability to look forward with hope. It's a hard combination to sustain, but if you can do it, you can change the world.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • World
  • Bad
  • Hope

• For the Christian mystics, detachment meant to leave attachment so that God could enter you and take over completely and you could climb the ladder to their heaven. Kind of crazy, but what the hell?

  

  Gerald Stern
  • Crazy
  • Christian
  • Heaven

• And when someone makes a statement you don't understand, don't tell him

  

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