Michio Kaku Quotes

It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything.

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• I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Where
  • Still
  • Charge

• It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Job
  • Actor
  • Director

• I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Work
  • Running
  • Insanity

• I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I've always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Time
  • Black
  • Years

• We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Reality
  • Images
  • Icons

• Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• There's a very simple reason for focusing on the nuclear issue. Many, many issues are of supreme importance in one way or another, but if we blow ourselves up with nuclear weapons, no other issue is really going to matter. Quite possibly there would be no other human beings left to be concerned about anything else.

  

  Alan Cranston
  • Up
  • Simple
  • Reason

• If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles; if a plain, she levels eighty; if a rock, she tilts five thousand feet of strata on end; our skies are higher and more intensely blue; our waves larger than others; our rivers fiercer. There is nothing measured, small nor petty in South Africa.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • She
  • Nature
  • Small

• Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors' rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.

  

  B. W. Powe
  • Country
  • Fire
  • Stock

• I like adventures and people who live with the volume on high.

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • People
  • Live
  • High

• The Russians stole from the Democratic National Committee with hacking.

  

  E. J. Dionne
  • Democratic
  • Committees
  • Hacking

• We all want the Greek people to prosper, to be able to provide a good life for their families and their children. That would be good for Greece, that would be good for the European Union, good for the United States, and ultimately, good for the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Maybe the restaurants could change the rules to allow smoking only at night when it becomes more of a bar setting.

  

  Andrew Brown
  • Night
  • Change
  • Rules

• Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right living.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Time
  • Character

• I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Want
  • Stories
  • Firsts

• Article II of the articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon was just the simple fact that he talked about and suggested the potential use of the IRS against one or two political opponents.

  

  Monica Crowley
  • Against
  • Suggested
  • Richard

• I don't believe that the economy has changed people's thinking politically in Alberta. However, obviously we elected a brand new government for the first time, some people say, in 44 years. It's actually the first time in over 70 years, because the previous government, prior to the PCs, was really just PCs with a different name. And I think what that did, it doesn't suddenly mean that Tom Mulcair is going to win a whack of seats here in Alberta, but I think it did open Albertans' eyes to the fact that, you know, something different is possible and we can do something different.

  

  Naheed Nenshi
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Mean

• Just because we are women doesn't mean the only roles we can play are that of the finger-shaking girlfriend.

  

  Sarah Shahi
  • Play
  • Mean
  • Girlfriend

• It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything.

  

  Michio Kaku
  • Mean
  • Clean
  • Pointless