Anthony Standen Quotes

There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.

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• People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Music
  • Dad

• The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Find
  • Difficult

• Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Earth
  • Food
  • Environment

• There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Myself
  • Learn
  • Criticism

• Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Different
  • War
  • motivation

• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • May
  • Value
  • Search

• Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Political
  • Abuse
  • Medical

• Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.

  

  Walter Koenig
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Me

• The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Important
  • Prove
  • Hype

• We don't go against the will of the people.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Will
  • Against

• I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Water
  • Cold

• If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Dance
  • Successful
  • Tennis

• When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.

  

  Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • Human
  • Start
  • Danger

• Rock n' roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • World
  • Band

• I've decided I am going to start loving my backside because I don't know anyone who does that.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Know
  • Start
  • Does

• I'm actually going in to ER as the new British intern.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • New
  • Going
  • Intern

• I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Never
  • Cigarette
  • Nine

• My dreams came true while wearing the opening look from the spring/summer 2010 Dior ready-to-wear collection. I will never forget how special I felt opening John Galliano's show, like I was living a dream.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • True
  • Dream
  • Summer

• Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Life
  • True
  • Fun

• We have many identities, and we can't be authentic to them all. The best we can do is be sincere in our efforts to earn the values we claim.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Best
  • Values
  • Sincere

• Particular care should be taken that every promise made to them the Navajo and Mescalero Apache should be observed to the letter. In this way I am confident that in a few years they would equal if not excel our peaceful and industrious Pueblos, and be a source of wealth to the Territory, instead of being as heretofore its dread and impoverishers.

  

  Kit Carson
  • Taken
  • Promise

• It’s not easy to know what is true for you or me at twenty-two, my age. But I guess I’m what I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • True
  • Age

• Our relationship with the European Union, which has done so much to promote stability, stimulate economic growth, and foster the spread of democratic values and ideals across the continent and beyond.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Done
  • Relationship
  • Growth

• There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.

  

  Anthony Standen
  • True
  • Word
  • Scientists