Richard Preston Quotes

I think we sometimes give ourselves a little too much credit as humans, as being able to control and understand nature, when in fact we do neither.

Richard Preston

• Sometimes
• Humans
• Ourselves
• Neither

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• There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.

  

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• My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

  

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• There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

  

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• The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

  

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• Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.

  

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• Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.

  

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• Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

  

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• The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

  

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• I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.

  

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• It'll certainly give the pigeons something to do.

  

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• I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.

  

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• Our fashion style is very legendary and very classic. I feel like it's different, and I feel like everybody got our own different style to bring to the table.

  

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• No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.

  

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  • Support
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• That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.

  

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• When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

  

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• It's amazing to me that Glenn Beck can be on the cover of 'Time,' and there can be a whole article about him basically saying, 'Well, you know, he's controversial.' It's like, 'No, he's a dangerous idiot who needs the help of a good psychiatrist!'

  

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• Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.

  

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• I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything.

  

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  • Sometimes
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• My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.

  

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  • Up
  • Growing
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• I got the sense that he was the kind of person who couldn't hold anger for more than a few minutes, because it just wasn't in him. It could never grow into resentment or bitterness, and I knew then that he was the kind of man who would be married forever. And I decided then and there that I should be the one to marry him.

  

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• I think we sometimes give ourselves a little too much credit as humans, as being able to control and understand nature, when in fact we do neither.

  

  Richard Preston
  • Sometimes
  • Humans
  • Ourselves