Elizabeth Bear Quotes

Stud males might be emotional, temperamental, and developmentally stunted, at the mercy of their androgens, but that didn't make them incapable of generosity, friendship, cleverness, or creativity.

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• Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Long
  • May
  • Think

• I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Children
  • Light

• My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

  

  Daisy Ashford
  • Idea
  • Wind
  • My Own

• The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Present
  • Influence
  • More

• I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Hate
  • Question

• While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

  

  Quintilian
  • Truth
  • Sometimes
  • Find

• In Italy there's perhaps a little less space than in Spain, but there's certainly as much sunshine.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Space
  • Sunshine
  • Italy

• When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didn't have time to think.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Time
  • Work
  • Think

• Fools follow rules when the set commands you.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine

• I am sorry to say that at the moment I am so busy as to be convinced that life has no meaning whatever... I do not see that we can judge what would be the result of the discovery of truth, since none has hitherto been discovered.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Judge

• Ah, Scotland. I am three-parts Scottish and terribly proud of it, although maybe we should divide it into eighths, because my two-eighths are Danish and English, the Lumley part. But the bulk of the rest of me is Scottish - and Scottish ministers especially.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Proud
  • Rest
  • English

• Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Mother
  • Relationship
  • Daughter

• You have to have a strong sense of self in this business - otherwise they're going to spit you out.

  

  Charlene Tilton
  • Business
  • Strong

• Susie Waggoner in 'Miami Blues' is just such a sweetheart, such an innocent. When I watch that, I really feel like I'm watching Susie Waggoner. I don't really see myself. And there's a simplicity to it that I really like.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Innocent
  • Simplicity

• I'll always be a fan of coach Harbaugh. Not too sure about Michigan.

  

  Colin Kaepernick

• I always demand intensity in training. That's my style, and I like it.

  

  Antoine Griezmann
  • Style
  • Training

• It's a very unnatural environment to be in, up on a stage. So you put up defenses to hide. Like looking at the ground with your hair in your eyes, or being tightly wound and quite aggressive and uncooperative, as I used to do.

  

  Alex Turner
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Environment

• I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with 'The Simpsons' and with 'Futurama,' what I'm trying to do in the guise of light entertainment, if this is possible - is nudge people, jostle them a little, wake them up to some of the ways in which we're being manipulated and exploited.

  

  Matt Groening
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• I have known lots of millionaires who were not happy men; they had not got all they wanted and therefore had failed to find success in life. A Singalese proverb says: "He who is happy is rich, but it does not follow that he who is rich is happy." The really rich man is the man who has fewest wants.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Life
  • Men
  • Happy

• We can overcome if we change the way we see, see ourselves, see our past, see our possibility.

  

  Daniel Beaty
  • Past
  • Change
  • Ourselves

• When our attitude towards ourselves is big, and our attitude toward others is generous and merciful, we attract big and generous portions of success.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Success
  • Attitude
  • Bigs

• Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • Heart
  • May
  • Words

• The truth is that it's just really hard for me to get to sleep without a dog in my bedroom. I once had a dog named Beau. He used to sleep in the corner of the bedroom. Some nights, though, he would sneak onto the bed and lie right between Gloria and me. I know that I should have pushed him off the bed, but I didn't. He was up there because he wanted me to pat his head, so that's what I would do.

  

  James Stewart
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Dog

• Stud males might be emotional, temperamental, and developmentally stunted, at the mercy of their androgens, but that didn't make them incapable of generosity, friendship, cleverness, or creativity.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Friendship
  • Generosity
  • Males