Erik Dammann Quotes
Belief in the deeper values of the common people is our only hope. We cannot judge from how people behave under pressure of a society that forces them to compete for self-interest or to be excluded. We must step out of our narrow social environment, and learn to know the underprivileged that have never participated in our activities. When we have them with us that will be real change from below.
Erik Dammann
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Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
Nathan Myhrvold
I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
Samantha Shannon
I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.
Sam Claflin
Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
Ralph Fiennes
In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
Daniel Day-Lewis
It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
There is nothing in this world which men desire and struggle for, and that is good for them, of which there is not enough for everybody.
Orison Swett Marden
The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony... So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.
Bahá'u'lláh
For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
Daniel Day-Lewis
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
Barbra Streisand
You live during the match, and you have strong emotions, but you don't want to get too overexcited. My body's totally flat now. I cannot move anymore. I'm totally exhausted, just because of the tension out there.
Roger Federer
Belief in the deeper values of the common people is our only hope. We cannot judge from how people behave under pressure of a society that forces them to compete for self-interest or to be excluded. We must step out of our narrow social environment, and learn to know the underprivileged that have never participated in our activities. When we have them with us that will be real change from below.
Erik Dammann