Elizabeth Bear Quotes

Earth could have learned a long time ago that securing initial and ongoing consent, rather than attempting to assert hierarchy, is key to a nonconfrontational relationship. Because we’re basically primates, we had to wait for a bunch of aliens to come teach us.

Elizabeth Bear

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• Hierarchy
• Primates
• Securing

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• Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • Good
  • Movie

• You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Experience
  • You
  • Paint

• I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Singing

• I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Enemy

• I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.

  

  Kate Jackson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Television

• There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • World
  • My Life

• Microsoft, Disney, Ford, Facebook, and a hundreds and thousands of other companies that affect us daily all began life as baby companies, aka start-ups.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Life
  • Baby
  • Daily

• My three best friends get me through everything: I need cute jeans, my kids are driving me crazy, I'm throwing a party, whatever. They keep me dialed in.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Party

• What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • World
  • War
  • Technology

• I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Good
  • Evil

• Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Trying
  • Story
  • Photography

• The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Job
  • Game
  • Team

• The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.

  

  Al Alvarez
  • Life
  • Real
  • Art

• Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Opportunity

• There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

  

  Denis Diderot

• I abhor nothing more than bumping into someone I know on the Tube.

  

  Arthur Smith

• I think, what I would communicate to people, if you are really keen in helping the world, you could spend so much quality time in terms of coaching, learning, providing great energy to the social entrepreneurs.

  

  Jean-Philippe Courtois
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• The left has lost the common touch.

  

  Christopher Lasch
  • Lost

• For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength--we are able in the end both to dominate the first and to achieve the second.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • First
  • Achieve
  • Hopes

• I'll only move in with my husband. There's no question of a live-in relationship.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Live
  • Relationship
  • Question

• I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on.

  

  Evan Parker
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Learned

• For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • People
  • Different
  • Past

• The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • Life

• Earth could have learned a long time ago that securing initial and ongoing consent, rather than attempting to assert hierarchy, is key to a nonconfrontational relationship. Because we’re basically primates, we had to wait for a bunch of aliens to come teach us.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Relationship
  • Learned
  • Hierarchy