Elizabeth Bear Quotes

Opinions are like kittens. People are always giving them away.

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• I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Family
  • Know
  • Immigrant

• Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Religious
  • Internet
  • Now

• From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Book
  • Age
  • Wine

• I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Pretty
  • Never
  • Body

• Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Great
  • Team
  • Serving

• It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Couple
  • Years
  • Flight

• It's interesting for me because in my work, a lot of times, I like to scrutinize the clothes and think what's going to make them look dated, and I do the same with vintage. In vintage, you want something unique and different, but at the same time, something that doesn't make you look like you dress like a grandpa.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• I think the president should be accessible, should answer questions that aren't pre-screened, but I think there should be a little bit of dignity to the presidency.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Think
  • Questions
  • Dignity

• In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.

  

  Edmund White
  • Men
  • Character
  • History

• Programmers can be lazy.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Lazy
  • Programmers

• You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • People
  • Good
  • Evil

• Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Life
  • Death
  • Day

• In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.

  

  Gary Wright
  • India
  • Trip
  • Invited

• The Constitution was made for ordinary people.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Constitution

• I think I'm brave because I've made decisions based - I hope not entirely selfishly - on what I think is right for me to do next.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Hope
  • Brave
  • Decisions

• The bumping of lower-quality men out of their marriages through competitive reductions in the incomes of higher-quality men continues until the incomes of the lowest quality men are reduced to their single levels.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Men
  • Single
  • Quality

• No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world’s amusements. It is for this reason that 'amusements' are not so amusing.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Up
  • World
  • Stress

• I love 'Guitar Hero' because I love music, but I have no musical ability whatsoever. So I love a game that makes you feel like you're a rock star.

  

  Marisa Miller
  • Music
  • Game
  • Rock

• If I'm in the airport, people will come up and just hug me because they feel like they can - and that's the greatest. They just want to hug because some place, some memory in their lives, I meant something to them.

  

  Lynda Carter
  • People
  • Up
  • Hug

• I'm very happy to be a foreigner in Japan, and I can't think of a more wonderful place to live, but at the same time, I would never want to be Japanese, because they are subject to stresses that I am not.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Time
  • Live
  • Happy

• If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

  

  Ken Thompson

• In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.

  

  Jacques-Louis David
  • Important

• Opinions are like kittens. People are always giving them away.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • People
  • Opinions
  • Kittens