Gavriel David Rosenfeld Quotes

Most people experience history as one damn fact after another in high school. But if you can wonder, "Wow, what if the US hadn't gotten involved in World War II?", you can become enthralled by the imaginary possibilities.

Gavriel David Rosenfeld

• History
• Wonder
• High School
• Possibilities
• World War II

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• I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Trying
  • Guitar
  • Bridge

• I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Great
  • Food
  • Chef

• I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Feel
  • Drama

• Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Sometimes

• There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Moments
  • Lot
  • Mindless

• Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Work
  • Animal
  • Rain

• The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Life
  • Character
  • Desire

• And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Words
  • Knowledge
  • Day

• But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Truth

• It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Why
  • Together
  • Movie

• I want people to tell me the truth.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • People
  • Truth
  • Me

• I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Existence
  • Lives
  • Economics

• The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Choices
  • Better
  • Depression

• The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.

  

  Gabriel Heatter
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I don't know that I could play a complete and total mess. After awhile, I think I would be like, 'No, none of that!'

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Think
  • Know
  • Play

• That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Guy
  • Air
  • Thoughts

• Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Diversity
  • Europe
  • Itself

• I love 'Somebody to Love' by Queen and of course 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is one of my favorites, just because it makes everyone in the room go crazy. Everyone tries to sing along with it, and half the room gets it right and the other half gets it wrong.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Crazy
  • Right
  • Wrong

• As a boy, I was deeply interested in scientific ideas, electrical and mechanical, and I read almost everything I could find on the subject. I was attracted more by the hardware and construction aspects than by the scientific issues.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Ideas
  • Boy
  • Construction

• Overall, I think I'm in pretty good shape, but I'm not really someone that is gung-ho or a fitness fanatic.

  

  Cobi Jones
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Fitness

• The discarnate TV user lives in a world between fantasy and dream, and is in a typically hypnotic state, which is the ultimate form and level of participation.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • World
  • Dream

• We have a renewed energy and vigor in our supporters and we are no longer so frightened about the future.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Future
  • Energy
  • Frightened

• Earlier attempts to show that simpler theories always have higher prior probabilities have failed, but there is a restricted circumstance in which the claim is right.

  

  Elliott Sober
  • Circumstance
  • Theories
  • Probabilities

• Most people experience history as one damn fact after another in high school. But if you can wonder, "Wow, what if the US hadn't gotten involved in World War II?", you can become enthralled by the imaginary possibilities.

  

  Gavriel David Rosenfeld
  • History
  • Wonder
  • High School