William E. Rees Quotes

The good news is that . . . humans are gifted by the potential for self-awareness and intelligent choice, and knowing our circumstance is an invitation to change.

William E. Rees

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• Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Culture
  • Movies
  • Games

• You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Gay
  • Actor
  • Issues

• My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Guy
  • You
  • Crazy

• If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

  

  Nate Silver
  • You
  • Get
  • Representative

• I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Ideas
  • Years
  • Programming

• I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Work
  • Mad
  • Turn

• There is no such thing as a black middle class.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Black
  • Class
  • Middle

• The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

  

  Orlando Gibbons
  • Death
  • Silent
  • Silver

• HuhI can't turn you loose now. If I do I'm gonna loose my life. OohI can't turn you loose now. If I do I'm gonna loose my life. I can't turn you loose to nobodyI love you baby, yes I do. Give shakin' mama, I told ya. I'm in love with only you. Gotta Baby do it baby why don't yaI'll give ya everything you want.

  

  Otis Redding
  • Life
  • Why
  • Baby

• Now was the present, now was the time containing that sweet union of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, spirit, will and imagination named Nancy.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Time
  • Present
  • Imagination

• Tides are like politics. They come and go with a great deal of fuss and noise, but inevitably they leave the beach just as they found it. On those few occasions when major change does occur, it is rarely good news.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Good
  • Great
  • Beach

• The individual begins that long effort as an Outsider; he may finish it as a saint.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Long
  • May
  • Effort

• Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • World

• We don't see ourselves as just a place where we come to worship but as a beacon and a bearer of the culture and a bearer of what makes us a people. But I like to say that this is not necessarily unique to us. It is really what America is all about.

  

  Clementa C. Pinckney
  • People
  • America
  • Culture

• My mum is a singer and harpist, and my dad writes fantastic poetry, so we've grown up around a lot of words and music.

  

  Jessie Buckley
  • Up
  • Music
  • Words

• I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so I thought, well what is there that I could kill? I couldn't kill this and I couldn't kill that.

  

  Ellen Burstyn
  • Time

• Only an intervention by women around the world, with their innate knowledge of interdependency, deep listening, empathy and self-sacrifice, could possibly alter our species' desperate course.

  

  Anohni
  • World
  • Women
  • Knowledge

• The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Moment
  • Handled
  • Patienly

• The world of women fascinates me, probably because my sister and I were always together as children in our mother's salon after school and after ballet classes. We used to talk about what we saw: the different ladies who would come in, all with their distinctive personalities.

  

  Monica Cruz
  • World
  • Children
  • Because

• Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Choices
  • Made
  • Sum

• The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

  

  Bill Watterson
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Intelligent

• Awareness is something apart from, and different from, all that of which we are aware: thoughts, emotions, images, sensations, desires and memory. Awareness is the ground in which the mind's contents manifest themselves; they appear in it and disappear once again.

  

  Arthur J. Deikman
  • Mind
  • Awareness
  • Ground

• The good news is that . . . humans are gifted by the potential for self-awareness and intelligent choice, and knowing our circumstance is an invitation to change.

  

  William E. Rees
  • Choices
  • Intelligent
  • Circumstances