Ellen Kushner Quotes

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• As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • You
  • Give

• When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Time
  • America
  • Focus

• But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.

  

  Kate Adie
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Information

• If I were to take an undergraduate chemistry exam, I would probably fail.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Fail
  • Chemistry
  • Were

• I love Yves Saint Laurent. I love Chanel. And Versace! Such beautiful gowns!

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Gowns

• The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Neighbors
  • Equally
  • Injunction

• The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • World
  • Model
  • Economy

• If you don't need umpires out there, and you can put robots out there, then why do we need ballplayers?

  

  Doug Harvey
  • Why

• I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Music
  • Career
  • No Idea

• I love Cheetos, those hot, spicy kind. And chocolate. Every time I'm in the airport I'm buying Cheetos and eating them on the airplane.

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
  • Time
  • Chocolate
  • Airplane

• I felt it was vital to stress the importance of national security in this debate and the need for a clear path to our exit from the European Union. I hope I have achieved both these objectives.

  

  Liam Fox
  • Hope
  • Path
  • Stress

• I don't understand why they trippin', If you ask me, Flow is just as nice as, I admit the propane, I just spit, probably, Just raise the gas prices, Everybody in the club, Try and get as fresh as me, What you want dog, Trying to stay recession free, And spit, refreshly.

  

  Kanye West
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Free

• The real economic cleavage is not... between employers and employed, but between all who do constructive work, from scientist to laborer, on the one hand, and all whose main interest is the preservation of existing proprietary rights upon the other, irrespective of whether they contribute to constructive work or not.

  

  R. H. Tawney
  • Work
  • Real
  • Hand

• It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Truth
  • Strong
  • Reason

• There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

  

  William James
  • Evil
  • Existence
  • Individual

• “In all countries, and in all ages, from the Druids down to brother Beecher, priests have aimed at universal power.”

  

  Anne Royall
  • Power
  • Priests
  • Aimed

• It always starts with a script. I like to have plenty of time to read something, and I always like to read a paper copy. I hate reading it on email. I sit down with a script, and want to see how it hits me. It's an instinctive process.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Reading

• These days I have to be extra nice in stores. It never fails that whenever I look as bad as I can possibly look or I am sort of cranky because the store is out of something, that is precisely the time when someone one will recognize me and say: 'I really like your show.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Nice

• Satirists do expose their own ill nature.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Nature
  • Expose
  • Satirist

• The room was dim, as though drenched in perpetual afternoon.

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Room
  • Afternoon