Hanns Johst Quotes

When I hear the word culture - I release the safety-catch of my Browning.

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• A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Up
  • Space
  • Astronomy

• I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Breakfast
  • Short
  • Lunch

• All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Guy
  • Community
  • Star

• Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • May
  • Know
  • Values

• For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Think
  • Feel
  • Talk

• The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Strong
  • Film
  • Hollywood

• I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many sorts which are okay, like the ones I think which most of us have in bed at night before we fall asleep, when we can see all sorts of patterns or faces and scenes.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Think
  • Night
  • Fall

• I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Always
  • Kid
  • Ever

• Nobody is faster than me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Me
  • Nobody
  • Faster

• Characters actors don't usually get noticed until they're about 38 or so.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Characters
  • Get
  • Noticed

• I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • People
  • Age
  • Weird

• Set politics and party aside: If it's not right for Michigan's small businesses and middle class, it's never been right with me.

  

  Gary Peters
  • Small
  • Party
  • Politics

• It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

  

  Daniel Bernoulli
  • True
  • Earth
  • Better

• In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

  

  Larry Niven
  • May
  • Society
  • Hindsight

• It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Music
  • Joy

• The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.

  

  Albert Bushnell Hart
  • Different
  • Growth

• Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Gratitude

• I'm a real goof-ball deep down. It's always been my thing to make people like me.

  

  Rita Ora
  • People
  • Real
  • Deep

• I find it very invigorating having Ken Lonergan, who's an established, Pulitzer-nominated playwright doing Howards End, or Chris Hampton who's won an Oscar writing a TV series, or having an actor like Mark Rylance, who is probably England's leading theater actor, in the lead in Wolf Hall.

  

  Colin Callender
  • Writing
  • Actors
  • Playwright

• It's amazing, 'cause sometimes when we're onstage, I feel like somebody's just moving the pieces. I'm just going, 'God, we don't have any control over this.' And that's magic.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • God
  • Control
  • Moving

• It's nice to know there are some things in early 21st-century post-industrial culture that don't change very fast. I am one of those.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Culture
  • Change
  • Post-Industrial

• There's a big difference between knowing math and understanding why math models are important to a business.

  

  Larry Burns
  • Important
  • Why
  • Business

• When I hear the word culture - I release the safety-catch of my Browning.

  

  Hanns Johst
  • Culture
  • Word
  • Browning