Newton Lee Quotes

Social media amplifies both the good side and the dark side of human nature. ... Notwithstanding human ignorance, freedom of expression is essential.

Newton Lee

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• Happiness is an inside job.

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Job
  • Happiness
  • Inside

• I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Kind
  • Sucker

• I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Military

• Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature
  • Giving
  • Beauty

• I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Person
  • More
  • Antisocial

• I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Want
  • Last
  • Holocaust

• Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Religion
  • Matter

• The government must adopt a rights-based approach that speaks to the needs and aspirations of surrogate mothers, children born out of surrogacy, and all individuals who want access to altruistic surrogacy services.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Children
  • Want
  • Government

• I want to become more famous, even more famous.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Want
  • Famous
  • More

• Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Live
  • Food
  • Water

• I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Work
  • Why
  • Hate

• I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Different
  • Food
  • Respect

• I’m not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Children
  • Baby
  • Dog

• All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Free

• Music falls on the silence like a sense, A passion that we feel, not understand.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Silence

• The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.

  

  Adam Smith

• The idea of cross-border payments is going to completely go away... Our vision is for there to be no distinction between international and domestic payments.

  

  Jeremy Allaire
  • Vision

• I'm very artistic - I feel like ever since I was born I've been drawing. I actually have a picture in my room that I painted, and people are always like "Where did you buy that?" It's cool that people are impressed by it.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • People
  • Cool
  • Picture

• He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Thoughts
  • Importance
  • Writes

• Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who is engaged in it, will suffer himself, I trust, to sink under difficulties, or be discouraged by hardships. If he cannot do as he wishes, he must do what he can.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Trying
  • Wish

• Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Freedom
  • Own
  • Prosperous

• Social media amplifies both the good side and the dark side of human nature. ... Notwithstanding human ignorance, freedom of expression is essential.

  

  Newton Lee
  • Freedom
  • Expression
  • Human Nature