Charlie Jane Anders Quotes

These things were made of hubris, because they always broke down, or worse, broke everything. But maybe Laurence had been right and these devices were what made us unique, as humans. We made machines, the way spiders made silk.

Charlie Jane Anders

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• We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • School
  • Kids
  • Interesting

• The first step... shall be to lose the way.

  

  Galway Kinnell
  • Lose
  • Step
  • First Step

• An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Better
  • Soup
  • Roses

• Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Memory
  • Carry
  • Diary

• I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Find
  • Look
  • Nostalgia

• For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Music
  • Art
  • Science

• My message is not just to disabled people, but to everyone: You have to work hard.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • People
  • Work
  • Work Hard

• It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • She

• The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Me
  • Sports
  • Air

• India needs to sustain its high growth rate.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • High
  • Growth
  • India

• I feel exhausted if I teach too long.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Long
  • Teach
  • Exhausted

• I can't speak for boys because I'm not one! But I just imagine they think differently.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Think
  • Speak
  • Imagine

• There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Chance
  • Smart

• We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Kids
  • Support
  • Wife

• If inequalities of taxable wealth backing up a government service are construed as denying equality before the law, then there is no solution but to have every government service whatever financed out of Washington.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Up
  • Law
  • Service

• I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Live
  • Weird
  • Ranch

• I take the time to look at my videos after a fight to see not what I did right but what I did wrong, to learn from those mistakes.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Time
  • Fight
  • Mistakes

• You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Learn
  • Try
  • Stronger

• I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one of the greatest writers ever, is Mark Twain. Yes, yes, yes. And Whitman, from whom the whole of 20th-century poetry sprung up. Whitman was the origin of things, someone with a completely different outlook. But I think that he's the father of the new wave in the world's poetry which to this very day is hitting the shore.

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Father Thinking

• I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Like
  • Champion
  • Well

• I do hope that all nations can live in complete security and welfare.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Security

• I never say a funny thing intentionally.

  

  Jayne Meadows
  • Funny

• The truth is that the Spirit of the living God is guaranteed to ask you to go somewhere or do something you wouldn't normally want or choose to do. The Spirit will lead you into the way of the cross, as He led Jesus to the cross, and that is definitely not a safe or pretty or comfortable place to be. The Holy Spirit of God will mold you into the person you were made to be.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Persons
  • Made
  • Comfortable

• These things were made of hubris, because they always broke down, or worse, broke everything. But maybe Laurence had been right and these devices were what made us unique, as humans. We made machines, the way spiders made silk.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Things
  • Unique
  • Made