Natalie Angier Quotes

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

Natalie Angier

• Freedom
• Enemy
• Complacency

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• I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Good
  • Player
  • Tennis

• '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

• I definitely want to study global health. Right now I'm working on all the prerequisite core curriculum that Columbia has. So getting all of that out of the way. And I definitely want to pursue something along the lines of public health.

  

  Kelsey Chow
  • Health
  • Study

• I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't even figure out the basic 26 letters, let alone operate, in English. I often feel that although I've found the sky of freedom above my head, I've lost the soil I stand on. I need to be back in my motherland, where I can find inspirations.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Family

• When you grow up with a significant amount of trauma, you are realizing it as you get older, and you're realizing the ways you can recover from that trauma. The things that I have witnessed and that I have been through, it's going to take a lifetime to undo.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Up

• Alienation is the most common state of the knowledgeable movie audience, and though it has the peculiar rewards of low connoisseurship, a miser’s delight in small favors, we long to be surprised out of it - not to suspension of disbelief nor to a Brechtian kind of alienation, but to pleasure, something a man can call good without self-disgust.

  

  Pauline Kael
  • Good
  • Long
  • Movie

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

  

  Natalie Angier
  • Freedom
  • Enemy
  • Complacency