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

• When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Friends
  • Conversation
  • Open

• 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

• He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Death
  • Reality
  • Imagination

• Starting my own label was more out of necessity. I'm not going to sit around and wait for labels to come screaming.

  

  Ashley Thomas

• The challenge for me was not just the prosthetic work and how to move like an older man would move, but more so how to have 50 years of experience in the workplace and talk to a young Robert F. Kennedy as if he was some political upstart that didn't know what the hell he was talking about. That was the big challenge [in the J. Edgar Hoover mоvie].

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Political

• I was a huge fan of video games; I wanted to write something, and I saw the tools at my fingertips to upload a video to my audience, and that's why I'm here today. I think that freedom and the lack of gatekeepers, combined with people's passion, is what really the true spirit of Internet geekdom is about.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Why
  • True

• Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • World
  • Me
  • Magic

• 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