Wendy Kaminer Quotes
In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause of it.Wendy Kaminer
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I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
Salva Kiir Mayardit -
I'm not interested in celebrity.
Orlando Bloom -
You want, as an artist, to be pushing yourself to do what you haven't done before.
T. C. Boyle -
You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
Adam Beach -
I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
Earl Scruggs -
I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
Larry Niven
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
Maggie Q -
I always wanted to play with Kobe Bryant. I used to tease him all the time. Every time I was a free agent, I was like, 'What's up, bro? You got a chance to get the pit that you need. You feel me? This is your chance.'
Nate Robinson -
Usually in features, I'm the lead. I consider the director the captain, but I consider myself the first mate, and it's up to me to keep in contact with the heart of the crew.
Eddie Albert -
By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.
Randi Weingarten -
No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. Learning for instance, to eat when he's hungry and sleep when he's sleepy.
Jack Kerouac
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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it. I want to draw a certain response like this.. ..that quality of response from people when they leave themselves behind, often experienced in nature, an experience of simple joy.. .My paintings are about merging, about formlessness.. .A world without objects, without interruption.
Agnes Martin -
I really like beef jerky. If we go to a gas station, I have to buy beef jerky.
Emily Ratajkowski -
I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
Bjork -
I'd rather look like a hobo and be super comfortable than wear something not comfortable.
Jessie James Decker -
It's a difficult journey when you're going through a divorce, is it not, for anyone?
David Cassidy -
We will watch very carefully what is happening in the economy and adjust policies appropriate.
Janet Yellen
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To a mouse, cheese is cheese. That is why mouse traps are effective.
Wendell Johnson -
I met with Martha and Sharon to see if there are any opportunities in syndication. My vision says her customers and fans are still loyal to her. I don't think the Martha Stewart brand loyalty has changed.
Allan James Burnett -
'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for.
Eric Liu -
Faith is hidden household capital.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.
Thomas Sowell -
In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause of it.
Wendy Kaminer