Nora Volkow Quotes

We cannot be guided by wishful thinking. We need objective data.

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• The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Good
  • God
  • Real

• The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Relationship
  • Grow
  • Harmony

• My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Body

• You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • You
  • Winning
  • Pride

• Everybody on this floor wants to send the same loud and clear message: that Congress is united in its opposition to terror and we are all deeply concerned about the future and security of our close friend and ally, Israel.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Future
  • Friend
  • Same

• Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Song
  • Negativity
  • Faster

• I'm actually in a tradition of classicists with a big public face who like sounding off.

  

  Mary Beard

• When I was confronted with just the bare facts of poverty and inequality in America, it always disturbed and confused me.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • America
  • Poverty
  • Confused

• I love writing.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Writing

• I remember my father saying to me once, 'I finally know how to describe you, Charlotte. You're prickly.' And he was right - prickly is a very good description. If I had to be an animal, I'd probably be a porcupine.

  

  Charlotte Rampling
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Father

• In theater, one of the biggest problems when you're rehearsing comedy over and over again is that you stop laughing at each other.

  

  Lauren Ashley Carter
  • Stop
  • Comedy

• I did my very first film with Kirk in Detective Story when he was the greatest, greatest star in the world. I fell in love with him, had a crush on him then.

  

  Lee Grant
  • World
  • Star
  • Crush

• The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.

  

  America Ferrera
  • Life
  • Time
  • Feeling

• Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or exploration completely, but we are profoundly ill adapted for going boldly into outer space.

  

  Charles Stross
  • Science
  • Space
  • Wall

• Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

  

  Christopher Charles Lloyd

• I have a bad sweet tooth. I'm pretty good when I have to eat well for work, but otherwise, I could eat a whole roll of raw cookie dough.

  

  Jeremy Renner
  • Good
  • Work
  • Bad

• We were emerging from the period of war, of uniforms, of women-soldiers built like boxers. I drew women-flowers, soft shoulders, fine waists like liana and wide skirts like corolla.

  

  Christian Dior
  • Women
  • War
  • Period

• Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.

  

  Billy Connolly

• Life's too mysterious to take too serious.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • Life
  • Serious
  • Mysterious

• Anna Wintour has guided me.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Me
  • Guided
  • Anna

• There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Earth

• Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did.

  

  Alex Chilton Big Star
  • Pretty
  • Glad
  • Addicted

• The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return.

  

  Sadhu Sundar Singh
  • True
  • Christian
  • Cutting

• We cannot be guided by wishful thinking. We need objective data.

  

  Nora Volkow
  • Thinking
  • Data
  • Guided