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

• I grew up writing songs in my room on GarageBand, and I would make the beats just out of layering my vocals over and over again. Very Imogen Heap-inspired.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Inspired

• You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Experiences
  • Room
  • Fall In Love

• it was a bitter and biting iron-gray afternoon, that clanked like armor and was as cold as a frosty axehead.

  

  Ardyth Kennelly
  • Cold
  • Afternoon
  • Frosty

• The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Past

• The adult fiction and writing for children portions of my MFA program were kept very separate, and there was a stigma around those 'kid people.'

  

  Rebecca Serle
  • People
  • Program
  • Separate

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

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Room
  • Afternoon