Kara Swisher Quotes

While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.

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• There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Power
  • Question
  • Humanity

• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Like

• There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Art
  • Bad
  • Religion

• We have to be aware that fossil fuel energy sources have an expiry date. A timeframe of 30, 40 or 50 years can seem a long time to get rewards for economic policy, but it's only a short time for implementing a new energy policy.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Time
  • Long
  • Energy

• Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Ability
  • Over
  • Disability

• We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Need
  • Group
  • China

• The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Past

• A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Down
  • Build
  • Carpenter

• When it comes to women, there has been a tendency to define women in sports in the context of their relationships - they watch games because their husbands watch. They're interested because their kids play a sport. They buy tickets to a sporting event because it's a way to spend time with family.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Time
  • Women
  • Family

• I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Me
  • Present

• If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Dead
  • Russia
  • Lived

• In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

  

  Saadi
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Yourself

• I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Free
  • Competition
  • Forward

• 'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.

  

  B. B. King
  • Great
  • She
  • Song

• While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Actor
  • Give
  • Romance

• Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Think
  • See
  • Hear

• If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Mind
  • Rest
  • Tongue

• Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you’re good, you’ll reset that expectation again

  

  Seth Godin
  • Quality
  • Tomorrow
  • Excellence

• We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Time
  • Music
  • American

• I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won't be able to get to know someone another way.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Important
  • Eyes
  • Hippie

• I grew up in a middle class household with parents, went to good schools, and never feared for anything, never wanted for anything that was really important. For all of us living in this world, all of us who have the resources, for us to not dedicate ourselves to giving something back, is to leave the world a lesser place.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Important
  • Parents
  • Resources

• While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.

  

  Kara Swisher
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