Ash Koosha (Ashkan Kooshanejad) Quotes

I wouldn't want to stay in any place for longer than 10 years, honestly. It's good to travel and see what's happening in the world.

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• This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Fear
  • Space
  • Hurt

• I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Years
  • Through
  • Over

• I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Drug
  • Addiction
  • Video Games

• I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Like
  • Bored
  • Because

• I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.

  

  J. D. Pardo
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Soccer

• The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Politics
  • Bible
  • Special

• We have deep depth.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Deep
  • Depth

• I don't cook very well at all. I'm the girl that can't make scrambled eggs.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Girl
  • Cook
  • Eggs

• Those whom the gods love grow young.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Young
  • For Him

• How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?

  

  Malcolm X
  • Giving

• When you’re only doing it for one play and you’re just not where you’re supposed to be, and freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose, boy are you going to clean somebody’s clock for that one play.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Freedom
  • Boy

• The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• No prisoner's dilemma here. Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Long
  • Fun

• God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.'

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • God
  • Country
  • May

• Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs that require more disk space and processing power. We buy bigger, faster computers, which then require more complex operating systems, and so on.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Power
  • Space
  • Technology

• Somehow we got used to death, and then we dehumanised it. We account for conflicts in figures. Ebola is 13,500 infected, 5,000 people have died... People are losing their sense of empathy, their sense of wanting to do something.

  

  Joanne Liu
  • People
  • Death
  • Empathy

• Scientists say, 'There is no such thing as time; gravity is a dust from another universe, and outside our own universe are many, many universes in all directions.' They speculate that attached to these universes are probably 6,000 planets identical to Earth. So are there things living out there? Animals, people, anything?

  

  James Rosenquist
  • People
  • Time
  • Earth

• I have long been puzzled by the entrenched mentality, and often enforced practice, of longer work hours and less sleep. Innumerable policies exist within the workplace regarding smoking, substance abuse, ethical behaviour, and injury and disease prevention.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Work
  • Long
  • Sleep

• John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man.

  

  Ken Mehlman
  • Good
  • Great
  • Job

• We wanted to bring some love to the world. I thought we were good at doing that. Bringin' love to the world.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • World
  • Good

• As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.

  

  Francis Parker Yockey
  • World
  • Faith

• Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Distance
  • Laughter

• The rationalism of the creative minds was tempered by abundant fantasies, and the supreme beauty of the monuments was probably spoiled by the circumambient vanities and ugliness; in a few cases the Greeks came as close to perfection as it was possible to do, yet they were human and imperfect.

  

  George Sarton
  • Mind
  • Creative
  • Perfection

• I wouldn't want to stay in any place for longer than 10 years, honestly. It's good to travel and see what's happening in the world.

  

  Ash Koosha
  • World
  • Travel
  • Happening