Iris Johansen Quotes
Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.Iris Johansen
Quotes to Explore
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No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
Gary Zukav -
The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
Daniel Dennett -
The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
Walter Kaufmann -
I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
Ramez Naam -
I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
Kanye West -
I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
Laura Fraser
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
R. A. Salvatore -
When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
Patrick Swayze -
Cricket has become more popular, not me... When the game grows, those who've played it also 'grow.'
Kapil Dev -
I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
Odette Annable -
Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
Yahya Jammeh -
I hate competition.
Marat Safin
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
Ingrid Bergman -
Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
Victor Hugo -
The nanofibrillar scaffolds designed to guide the process of cellular repopulation is an important step towards prolonging life and enhancing the quality of life for patients with advanced heart disease with defective valve.
Magdi Yacoub -
You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.
Kaia Gerber -
As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
M. Stanton Evans
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I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.
Francesca Annis -
I was using computers for music in the '70s, '80s and '90s, and people didn't get it. They thought you should only use computers for your taxes and making pie charts.
Buffy Sainte-Marie -
The band at the far end of the hall, amplified to the din of an elephant charge, smashed and hewed at the tune as though in a holy war against silence.
Kurt Vonnegut -
I enjoy where I am and I don't have a problem with being Steve Buscemi, Stanley Tucci, Don Cheadle, or Jeffrey Wright. They're not the lead of every movie they're in, but every time you see them they're really good.
Anthony Mackie -
When I can't immediately define the character, and there's an element of mystery to it and still a lot to be explored, that's when I say yes.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
Iris Johansen