Natalie Angier Quotes

The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.

Natalie Angier

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• 'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Song
  • Dangerous
  • Very

• When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Couple

• Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Life
  • Long
  • Job

• I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Money
  • She
  • Mother

• Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Car
  • Better
  • Exercise

• This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.

  

  Pat Boone
  • School
  • May
  • High

• Bordeaux would be naive not to recognize that Robert Parker was driving the brand equity. If the next generation doesn't care about Chateau Pichon-Lalande, then you have a problem.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Problem
  • Care
  • Driving

• I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Travel
  • Leave
  • Desk

• We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Moment
  • Busy
  • Month

• And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Work
  • Government
  • New

• There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Good
  • Women
  • Today

• When songs make me wanna throw up, it makes me ashamed to even be in the same genre as those songs.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Songs
  • Ashamed
  • Genre

• What is this 'mac and cheese'? Is that a black thing?

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Black

• The very things I might have given in to, that demanded, that said, this is your life. I mean, this is your only way to survive, are the things I fought hardest to end. 'Cause I believed in something else. And um, what makes that sane is that I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People
  • Life

• No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

  

  Edmund Burke

• Oh, and just one more point that a lot of Americans don’t know. We’re so used to, ‘Oh colonialism,’ no, the Boers, the ones who are there, were there before the Zulus, they got there first. The Zulus came down like a hundred years later. I mean we are witnessing a straight out genocide.

  

  Ann Coulter

• There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • People
  • Together
  • True

• The medieval Islamic world, from Central Asia to the shores of the Atlantic, was a world where scholars and men of learning flourished. But because we have tended to see Islam as the enemy of the West, as an alien culture, society, and system of belief, we have tended to ignore or erase its great relevance to our own history.

  

  Prince Charles
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• In general, I think it's an advantage politically to keep people guessing.

  

  Jared Polis
  • People

• Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

  

  Paul Berg
  • Important
  • Education
  • Curiosity

• O Christian, look up and take comfort. Jesus has prepared a place for you, and those who follow Him shall never perish, neither shall anyone pluck them out of His hands.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Up
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• In other words, it is my view that the brain is preprogrammed to feel good (i.e., to seek a sense of well-being/gratification). This is what I term the gratification principle. This usually occurs as the result of instinctive salient/relevant acts or what we normatively decide are salient/relevant acts.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Good
  • Words
  • Brain

• I have to stay on top of myself with honesty and be very forthcoming, quickly admit when I'm wrong, you know? I have a whole system that works for me, and that's part of my worldview now.

  

  Dax Shepard
  • Honesty

• The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.

  

  Natalie Angier
  • Freedom
  • Enemy
  • Complacency