Ralph Peters Quotes
When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.Ralph Peters
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
Damien Hirst -
Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
Viggo Mortensen -
Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
Mamata Banerjee -
I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
Sally Watson -
Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
Wayne Huizenga -
What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
Ian Hacking
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
Ted Nelson -
What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
Walter Martin -
I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
Vanity -
Life is like an analogy.
Aaron Allston -
The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
Jack Hanna -
I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
Carl Sandburg
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
Ursula Burns -
I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
Samira Wiley -
I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
Ferdinand Marcos -
I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
Victoria Aveyard -
A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
Carl T. Rowan -
Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
Abbi Glines
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
Jack Valenti -
It's strange that so many people think it's glamorous and fun to be on a set, I guess it shows they do a good job of hiding reality!
Michael Jeter -
I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
William Golding -
A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late '80s agreed that 'employees who are loyal to the company and further its business goals deserve an assurance of continued employment.' A decade later, only 6 percent agreed. It was in the '90s that companies started weeding people out as a form of cost reduction.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
Somehow, even though you have less time and less money, the thing about making indie films is somehow you have another kind of resource: a human resource, where you can really look to your creative colleagues and actually ask questions that are honest.
Karyn Kusama -
When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.
Ralph Peters