Birgitta Jonsdottir Quotes

People want real changes, and they understand that we have to change the system.

Birgitta Jonsdottir

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• The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Success
  • Science
  • Religious

• I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Feeling
  • Band
  • Same

• Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Game

• There's been a gap between perception and reality, the perception being that California is on the cutting edge of gun safety legislation when, in fact, there are a number of areas where we have fallen behind.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Reality
  • Cutting
  • Gun

• When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Work
  • Like
  • Feel

• I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
  • Free
  • Sometimes

• I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.

  

  Edmund White
  • Money
  • Always
  • Ambitious

• It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Nice
  • Kind
  • Enjoy

• Over half of the traffic that flows over our networks is coming from video. As you think about a business that is going to be video centric and video focused, you want to have scale on the video programming side to be able to take advantage of this.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Business
  • Think
  • Want

• The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Mind
  • Human
  • Assumption

• 'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Great
  • Book
  • War

• I don't take a scene or word for granted.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Word
  • Scene
  • Take

• My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Father
  • Universe
  • Ship

• This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • May
  • High
  • Me

• The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • House
  • Food
  • Unique

• Judges decide upon copyright law. They decide upon trademark law. They decide upon scientific issues. They decide upon very complex technical issues on a daily basis. So you must have confidence in the Supreme Court, that they will apply their mind and they will come out with a decision consistent with the Constitution.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Mind
  • Law
  • Decision

• Every state that addresses climate change emboldens the others, just as shifting public attitudes embolden politicians and, arguably, the court system.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Change
  • Climate Change

• This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• All the excitement is during the making of a film. Once I'm done with it, I switch to my next project and am excited about that.

  

  Anushka Shetty
  • Done

• My parents did not pay a cent for my education; they didn't give me a car or furniture - I did that 100% on my own. I had to pay back a lot.

  

  Constance Wu
  • Parents
  • Education
  • Car

• I'd say that I'm a very friendly, outgoing, happy person who just wants to make the people around me happy.

  

  Cindy Busby
  • People
  • Happy

• Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to how movies use it to establish the moral strength of a household), the opening night montage of Sunday-night supper in one home after another in Waxahachie, Texas in 1935 - a whole community saying grace - made me expect the worst.

  

  Pauline Kael
  • People
  • Home
  • Night

• When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because you cannot help yourself, because you are compelled by his gun. Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you, just as the highwayman's gun.

  

  Alexander Berkman
  • Work
  • Help
  • Gun

• People want real changes, and they understand that we have to change the system.

  

  Birgitta Jonsdottir
  • People
  • System
  • Real Changes