Gillian Anderson Quotes

Is that the ultimate paradox of life, she wondered, that the universe should become less clear with age?

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• Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Time
  • Great
  • Interesting

• What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn't have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems and is neutral enough for dinner, business, a date, a funeral. You don't overwear it, you don't overwash it, because the Plan B is - gold.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Good
  • Business

• Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Right
  • Something
  • Wrong

• I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • War
  • Bad
  • Evil

• It's interesting – in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Lived

• Those of us who lived under communism for most of our lives were looking toward the Western world because of its values, emphasis on democracy, individual liberties and freedom, and economic prosperity.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Important
  • Man
  • Opportunity

• When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Good
  • Like
  • Stage

• One of the exciting things about an entanglement puzzle is there's no end to it. Once you solve how to take it apart, you have to solve how to put it back together.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Together
  • End
  • Puzzle

• I heard it in 2008 and hear it again now - this notion that the only reason one would support Hillary Clinton is because she is a woman - or only because she is experienced and smart. She is all of those things. But I am with her because... Hillary Clinton inspires me.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Support
  • Woman
  • Smart

• It was an honour to be a part of that series. I still get fan mail every day for that show; a big portion of my fan base is from 'Gilmore Girls.'

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Show

• Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Trying
  • Story
  • Photography

• I don't like L.A. It's just not fun. I don't know why, but I just don't get it. You have to drive to get everywhere, and when it rains everybody freaks out.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Why
  • Fun
  • Know

• This whole science thing of working out if players are a little bit tired just gives you an excuse to leave them out.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Science
  • Tired
  • Leave

• My mother persevered through much adversity because she possessed faith in God, self-respect, and an awareness of history; most especially, she was astute in Africa's significant contribution to world history. Sister Betty refused to live her life as a victim.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Church
  • Period

• We've been going through some growing pains getting established, but I think it will continue to get better. I could see it becoming very successful.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Growing
  • Successful
  • Pains

• The effort of every time I put out a video, it was like, 'Okay, I've got to put it on my Facebook, I've got to put it on my website, what's the view count now? What's the view count now? What's the view count now?' You get obsessive with it.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Time
  • Effort
  • View

• I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an invisible, divine entity created an entire universe just for us, or that the government is stockpiling space aliens in a secret desert location.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • Mind
  • Space

• There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Universe

• I don't like dirt. Cleanliness is high on my agenda, but I don't have a phobia of dirt. I'm just not keen on it. I don't really like dirty people or houses or smelly things.

  

  Keeley Hawes
  • People
  • High
  • Dirty

• Is that the ultimate paradox of life, she wondered, that the universe should become less clear with age?

  

  Gillian Anderson
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