Susan Blackmore (Susan Jane Blackmore) Quotes
For the planet's sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we're doomed.
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If I have anything, it's tenacity.
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From being a waiter, to a door-to-door salesman, to a car-washer, to a delivery boy - I have done it all.
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Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.
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What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.
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There are aspects of '24' where I love its politics and aspects where I hate them.
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Life divides into amazing enjoyable times and appalling experiences that will make future amazing anecdotes.
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Do not be afraid of your difficulties.Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have made the best of an adversity, it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity.
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This is not the case of a pampered athlete. This is not a case or a situation where someone said, 'Hey, I played ball. You need to treat me differently.' He took it like a man.
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Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
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It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position
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The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.
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Even a superficial glance is sufficient to show that all the innumerable forms in which the life-urge of Nature manifests itself are subject to a fundamental law - one may call it an iron law of Nature - which compels the various species to keep within the definite limits of their own life-forms when propagating and multiplying their kind.
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I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.
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Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results. If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.
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All I want to say is this: Wouldn't the world be a better place if there is peace?
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You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.
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I want to differentiate between stability and security: Stability comes from the hearts of people and acceptance of the judicial system. Security comes from the barrel of a gun and the threat of the use of force.
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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.
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Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population growth, to the dirt, pollution and noise of a New York or Tokyo. And that is the tragedy. It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
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For the planet's sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we're doomed.
