Felice Picano Quotes
The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.Felice Picano
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
Ralph Marston -
The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
Yitzhak Rabin -
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.
Gale Norton -
Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
Barton Gellman -
Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
Samantha Harvey
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
Frances McDormand -
And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time.
Lara St. John -
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
Barbra Streisand -
There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
Warren Buffett -
It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
Sam Harris -
I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
Larry Niven
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
Bai Ling -
Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
Ralph Merkle -
I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.
Wally George -
I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
Vera Wang -
These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.
Larry Flynt -
In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
Laura Carmichael
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I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.
Yann Tiersen -
I believe that the truest parts of people can be buried, and for many different reasons.
Mary Gaitskill -
Innate sentic detectors could help by teaching children about their own affective states. For if distinct signals arouse specific states, the child can associate those signals with those states. Just knowing that such states exist, that is, having symbols for them, is half the battle.
Marvin Minsky -
A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
Quintilian -
Very skinny women don't look beautiful in clothes.
Christian Lacroix -
The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.
Felice Picano