Alan Chalmersun Quotes

Two normal observers viewing the same object from the same place under the same physical circumstances do not necessarily have identical visual experiences, even though the images on their respective retinas may be virtually identical.

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• The fundamental problem is not that Trump has access to the nuclear launch codes, but that they exist at all.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Problem
  • Trump
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• My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Long
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• Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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  • War
  • Faith

• My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved making music, but I didn't have a clear path. I also lacked in confidence.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Music
  • Confidence
  • Path

• I'm 5' 11" as I proudly say - just so I don't have to say six feet.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Say
  • Feet
  • Six

• There's more single-family homes rented in the United States then there are apartments.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Family
  • Single
  • More

• I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Writing
  • Politics
  • Sacrifice

• I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • Time
  • May
  • Period

• You never know what battles people fight.

  

  Francois Hougaard
  • People

• Secret Cinema has created a new way of experiencing film. The fusion of film and theatre allows for a much more powerful experience and adds an incredibly unique dimension for the audience. It certainly did for me. I was blown away

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Experience
  • Powerful
  • Film

• Many of the mortgages with high fees fall into categories of semi-commercial such as buy-to-let, or are sub-prime, for people with previous credit problems. Those mainstream products with high fees usually have a great headline interest rate to entice the clients in.

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
  • People
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  • High

• You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph, evincing a better self in response to things that hurt.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Life
  • Hurt
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• I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind yourself there's beauty in the world. I wanted to show a more poetic side to my work. It was all about... a feeling of sadness, but in a cinematic kind of way. I find beauty in melancholy.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • World
  • Work
  • War

• Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.

  

  Alice James
  • Perfect
  • Struggle
  • Attitude

• Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks.

  

  L. M. Boyd
  • Chinese
  • Firsts
  • Knives

• After it is said and done about who does what on the Batman assembly line, I do not underestimate all of the help I've received.

  

  Bob Kane
  • Done
  • Help
  • Said

• I'd like to cause a little riot in skating.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Cause
  • Skating
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• I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.

  

  Judith Krantz
  • Writing
  • Creative
  • Fiction

• A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Society
  • Moral
  • Parent

• No two wars are identical.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Two
  • Wars
  • Identical

• I was actually picked on as a kid. I guess in high school it started to change for me. I guess being picked on made a lasting impression on me so I never - whenever somebody calls me handsome or anything like that, I never take it for granted. I appreciate it every time I hear it, so it's never something that gets old.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• Two normal observers viewing the same object from the same place under the same physical circumstances do not necessarily have identical visual experiences, even though the images on their respective retinas may be virtually identical.

  

  Alan Chalmersun
  • Experiences
  • Identical
  • Observers