David Swanson Quotes

No other nation killed people the way the United States did to end slavery.

David Swanson

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• Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • May
  • Today
  • Science

• As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People
  • Long
  • Book

• I usually have eight to 10 meetings a day and travel 150 days a year..._It sounds crazy, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Day
  • Crazy
  • Travel

• Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Important
  • Women
  • Respect

• There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Work
  • Team
  • Always

• I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Movie
  • Career
  • College

• I love to go all out - once I start doing my makeup, I kind of tend to do a lot of it. So like foundation, contour, highlight, eyeliner, shadow, lashes, lipstick - everything! But I really, really love my contours.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Like
  • Start
  • Makeup

• Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Good
  • Important
  • Success

• I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Want
  • Human
  • Human being

• If you imagine your friend is recommending you content on a topic they're an expert on, they can do a really good job of that. They know what you're interested in, they know your personality, they know if you have a scientific type of mind-set or not.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Job

• I try personally not to be nostalgic.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Try
  • Personally
  • Nostalgic

• I go to Japan every November on vacation, and the one thing I never return home without is yuba, which is the thin skin that forms atop boiling soy milk. You skim it off and either eat it fresh or dry it.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Home
  • Never
  • Vacation

• I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We realize how old we are, we realize we've been playing this game for a long time, but you know what? We're not done yet.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Brain

• The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven, The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Heaven

• Most things still remain to be done!

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Done

• Nothing had happened because nothing had changed. Yet the General was rubbish in the end.

  

  Wallace Stevens

• I've made so many changes to my records because of the way the audience has reacted at the various festivals I've played - I've taken tracks back into the studio, stripped them bare, and built them back up again to create something entirely different.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Up
  • Different
  • Taken

• I think I had a stress fracture before I broke my foot, and I think that was absolutely because I was not getting enough nutrients.

  

  Adam Rippon
  • Stress

• I don't know how many times we have to be reminded that life is extremely short.

  

  Asher Roth
  • Life
  • Short
  • Reminded

• That men should pray and fight for their own freedom, and yet keep others in slavery, is certainly acting a very inconsistent, as well as unjust and, perhaps, impious part, but the history of mankind is filled with instances of human improprieties.

  

  John Jay
  • Men
  • History
  • Freedom

• It is fair to say there are individuals in the United States who ascribe to al-Qaeda-type beliefs.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • United States
  • Beliefs
  • Fair

• When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

  

  Gerrit Smith
  • Slavery
  • Reasoning
  • Advocacy

• No other nation killed people the way the United States did to end slavery.

  

  David Swanson
  • Slavery
  • Nation
  • United States