L. Neil Smith Quotes
My current novel, Pallas, is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Sagebrush Rebellion - and yet what I hear all too often from libertarians is that they don't read fiction.L. Neil Smith
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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
I never thought of a career of as a model, and it was a total surprise for me when I won the contest and became Miss Chelyabinsk. Then I started modelling in Paris.
Irina Shayk -
The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
Lajos Kossuth -
I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
Rachel Zoe -
My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
Tate Donovan -
A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
Lady Bird Johnson
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Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
Talulah Riley -
I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
Patricia Highsmith -
I don't run behind authority.
Naguib Sawiris -
People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
Yakov Smirnoff -
I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
Laura Schlessinger
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With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.
Kate Bernheimer -
Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
Rachel Cusk -
I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
Carly Rae Jepsen -
I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.
Rachel Kushner -
Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
Madame de Stael -
People forget that although we can pinpoint the price, we can only guess at future earnings. The past isn't much help: It simply tells whether a market was pricey or cheap.
Barry Ritholtz
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In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy.
James Surowiecki -
I had so much fun playing songs from 'Based On A True Story...' and getting to see the crowd's reaction to those songs was unforgettable.
Blake Shelton -
In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother.
Joseph Stalin -
Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
William Blum -
My current novel, Pallas, is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Sagebrush Rebellion - and yet what I hear all too often from libertarians is that they don't read fiction.
L. Neil Smith