Tim Pratt Quotes

Being ruled by a depraved poet-king who is sacrified each spring is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Tim Pratt

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• The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is that you trust theater actors a lot more. You know that they're seriously more trained than anyone else because theater is the best place to grow as an actor.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Time
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• I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • Time
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• There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • World
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• The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Pride
  • Ignorance
  • Self

• If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • You
  • Food
  • Safety

• I love my daddy. My daddy's everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Man

• Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Done
  • Job
  • Best

• So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Children
  • Giving
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• This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Politics
  • Separate
  • Match

• I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Country
  • Real
  • Blues

• To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • You
  • Understand
  • Realize

• After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Together
  • Nature
  • Looking

• Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • World
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• Football lost its excitement for me.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • Lost
  • Football

• I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.

  

  Meg Wheatley
  • Believe
  • Survival

• The secret to adulthood is that 99% of the time, you actually know the right thing to do. Adults make it hard when they are deciding whether to do the right thing.

  

  Jason Kander
  • Time

• All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Mind
  • Environment
  • Body

• I remember disassembling and putting an old analog alarm clock together. It was a lot of fun figuring out why it still worked with that one spring missing.

  

  Markus Persson
  • Why
  • Remember
  • Together

• Is life worth living? Yes, so long As Spring revives the year, And hails us with the cuckoo's song, To show that she is here.

  

  Alfred Austin
  • Life
  • Long
  • She

• We should not assume that Russia is doomed to live according to its worst traditions. In fact, in Russian history, failed efforts at external aggression, when they fail, usually bring on areas of internal reform.

  

  Daniel Fried
  • Effort
  • Worst
  • Tradition

• Being ruled by a depraved poet-king who is sacrified each spring is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

  

  Tim Pratt
  • Spring
  • Worst
  • Poet