Mickey Kaus Quotes
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
Abraham Maslow -
Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
Nathan Myhrvold -
What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.
Otto Preminger -
I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.
Malin Akerman -
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
Carlos Fuentes -
My parents were really loving, open people to be around. I don't remember them ever telling me this profession is difficult. There was never, 'Uhhh, what else are you interested in?' They were just, 'Great. Done. Go for it.'
Rachel Keller
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I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
M. Night Shyamalan -
A house is kind of scary.
Laura Dekker -
Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.
Karl Pilkington -
I once got a huge, expensive flower arrangement from a person I didn't like, who sent it out of pure guilt. It had a hideous bird-of-paradise in the middle, and I thought it would never fade and die. I hated it.
Maeve Binchy -
We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it?
Carl Sagan -
Now out upon you, Christmas !Is this the merry time When the red hearth blazed, the harper sung,And the bells rung their glorious chime ? . . .
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Being deliberate in decisionmaking isn't always flashy, but it does get results.
Betsy Hodges -
I'm always searching. It's the reason I'm here. It's not really about music: it's about searching for meaning.
Charlie Haden -
I like playing characters that have a prickly armor because when you start to see the cracks and some heart come out, it gives the audience something to look forward to.
Matt Passmore -
With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.
Alain Robert -
I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a genius.
Christoph Waltz -
You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.
Marsilio Ficino
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I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.
Jesse Helms -
The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill.
Denis Thatcher -
I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.
Albert Ellis -
I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.
Will Smith -
Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.
Mickey Kaus