Kate Bornstein Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
Hannah Arendt -
I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
Ze Frank -
I am surrounded by great people.
Rafael dos Anjos -
The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
Zooey Deschanel -
I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
Gary Barlow Take That -
Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
Laura Linney -
No, I think I used to be pretty superstitious about certain things, but I'm really not anymore. As long as I have everything is in order and I have my things as far as the match goes, shooting I'm fine. But I really don't.
Nancy Johnson -
The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there.
Barack Obama -
'I am a necromancer, but not of the common sort, while others of the art raise the dead, I lay them to rest - or try too - and those that will not rest I bind, for I am Abhorsen...' He turned to the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, 'Father of Sabriel.'
Garth Nix -
A devout and serious Christian, she was often bothered by what she read of socialists because she could not, instantly and absolutely, see where they were so wrong. To her horrified ear, they kept sounding as though they had ideas rather like Christ's.
Claud Cockburn -
Each time I'm training and sparring, I'm always pushing myself to submit my training partners.
Demetrious Johnson
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I don't think when I make love.
Brigitte Bardot -
Let me say that I've never thought to conduct because the conductor has to think to the music before the orchestra. And the orchestra comes later. For me, it's terrible.
Andrea Bocelli -
I had furthermore spoken on the assumption that Russia would mobilize, whereas the assumption of the German Government had hitherto been, officially, that Serbia would receive no support; and what I had said must influence the German Government to take the matter seriously.
Edward Grey -
Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life.
Christie Brinkley -
Quantum physics is a bit of a passion of mine. It's extraordinary. There's a branch of mathematics that is based on lunacy, and that's wonderful.
Bob Hoskins -
Sometimes my backswing gets long, and I get in bad positions. The club also can get behind me coming down, so I have to flip my hands to catch up to my body.
Louis Oosthuizen
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The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).
C. S. Lewis -
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln -
Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend.
Darrell Issa -
The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).
C. S. Lewis -
I don’t pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me that’s the whole world
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia -
Your life's work begins when your great joy meets the world's great hunger.
Kate Bornstein