Charlie Jane Anders Quotes

The sheer volume of bad news had gotten beyond anybody’s ability to process into a narrative.

Charlie Jane Anders

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• News
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• With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Death

• Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types.

  

  Kaitlin Doubleday
  • Bad
  • Place
  • Insecurity

• If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Economic

• You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Bad
  • Kind
  • Learn

• Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Bad
  • Positive
  • Idea

• You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Good
  • Power
  • Bad

• Most of the time, I don't really give people a chance. I have a wall up. I'm always protecting who I am. Thinking about my brand. I make it hard on people. Sometimes, it's a good thing. Sometimes, it's a bad thing.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Ability
  • Aggressive
  • Respected

• I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Try
  • Preparation
  • Beyond

• When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it's a fictional world or a real world, you do get to see somebody else's point of view, whether he's a good guy or a bad guy.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.

  

  Dan Totheroh
  • Money
  • Heart
  • Bad

• I've had mental errors before while not shooting the ball well and while shooting the ball well, and vice versa. So I can't compound one on top of the other. It's just a matter of getting out of the groove of shooting bad and just staying more locked in.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Bad
  • Matter
  • Mental

• If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • Truth
  • Bad
  • Beliefs

• I have a great ability to improvise verbally, and I am very funny on a dime.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Ability
  • Improvise
  • Verbally

• Kids take work, effort, love, blood, sweat and tears and are a full time job. You have to commit, for better or worse and then give your all and hope for the best. The one thing you can never, ever do is give up and say, 'Oooops, never mind, my bad, you can take this one back!'

  

  Dale Archer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Our cellphones can do everything, but they're bad at letting us talk to each other.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Bad
  • Everything
  • Talk

• Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Happy

• A man who has throttled a bad impulse has at least some consolation in his agonies, but a man who has throttled a good one is in a bad way indeed.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Bad

• One of the things that's driving films in a particular direction is that the after market value of them is dropping really fast and in many segments of it, not just DVDs. Pay television is dropping.

  

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura
  • Value
  • Driving

• I just got an honorary degree from Glasgow University, and I had to wear around very painful shoes so that I didn't laugh all the way through the ceremony because I felt like an outlaw.

  

  Denise Mina
  • Shoes

• We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Pleasure
  • Dies

• This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national symbol as the maple leaf.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Games
  • Hockey
  • Symbol

• If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• The sheer volume of bad news had gotten beyond anybody’s ability to process into a narrative.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Bad
  • Ability
  • News