Gavin Pretor-Pinney Quotes

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• Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Gay
  • Living
  • Lesbian

• If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Bad
  • You
  • Fighting

• I'm such a perfectionist.

  

  Candice Glover
  • Perfectionist

• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • Education
  • College

• I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • School
  • Know
  • Never

• Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Latin
  • Greek
  • Come

• What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community.

  

  Ed Lee
  • People
  • Time
  • Community

• Lots of male friendships begin as a cheeky snog. Or a little undercurrent of flirtation.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Friendships
  • Begin
  • Lots

• If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Voting

• A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Army
  • Sides
  • Terrorism

• I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Government
  • Best
  • Decisions

• I've been shy twice. Once when I saw Matthew Bomer and once when I saw Adam Levine. I couldn't say anything, literally.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Say
  • Shy
  • saw

• When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Journalism
  • Racket
  • Freelancer

• Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: 'Who am I?'

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Question
  • Storm
  • Flag

• I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Think
  • Way
  • President

• A lot of people believe women can't do tech-y stuff. Becoming nerdy doesn't have to mean the short-haired guy, but can be the woman with very long, beautiful hair.

  

  Weili Dai
  • People
  • Believe
  • Long

• If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Paint

• I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.

  

  Prince Charles
  • Wonder
  • Red

• I love linen in soothing colors for any room in the house.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • House
  • Colors
  • Soothing

• The light would reach us more quickly in the morning and fade more slowly at night if the whole earth were divided into vast flower beds that called forth the light at dawn and clutched it longer at nightfall. Nature instituted summer for flowers long before man took summer over for his own uses.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Long
  • Nature
  • Night

• Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour, a change not quite completed? You are familiar yet an aberration.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Night
  • Girl
  • Moving

• In the summer of 1866, as Leo Tolstoy prepared for his serialized novel 'War and Peace' to be published as a single volume, he wrote to illustrator Mikhail Bashilov, hoping to commission drawings for the new edition of the novel, which he referred to by its original title,1805.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • War
  • Peace
  • Single

• I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Comedy
  • Feel
  • Starting

• Don't be brainwashed by the sun fascists - fair-weather Cumulus have a starring role in the perfect summer's day.

  

  Gavin Pretor-Pinney
  • Summer
  • Weather
  • Brainwashed