William Collins Quotes
Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.
William Collins
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
Sam Donaldson
The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
Hanna Rosin
I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
Nancy Lublin
In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
Kangana Ranaut
You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.
Kacey Musgraves
I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.
T. J. Miller
I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.
T. S. Kalyanaraman
I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
Damon Galgut
I think beautiful independent films are made, and I think they're as close to what theater can be because they're not loaded with all of the extra stuff. It's human, and it's more organic, but theater is very unique... It's a different connection altogether.
Sam Underwood
I love baseball, and the door remains open.
Rafael Palmeiro
On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.
K. Eric Drexler
We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above. To contemplate all things as God sees them, as Christ beholds them, overcomes sin, defies Satan, dissolves perplexities, lifts us above trials, separates us from the world and conquers fear of death.
Albert Benjamin Simpson
The fact that I'm very close with my past relationships is something I pride myself on. My mom is still close to her first husband. It's nice to be able to enjoy someone in a different form.
Kate Bosworth
The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
D. H. Lawrence
Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.
Plato
Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.
William Collins
