Bertrand Russell Quotes

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

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• All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • World
  • Education
  • Best

• I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • World
  • Want
  • Player

• But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • People
  • You
  • Page

• I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Comfortable
  • Skin
  • Jew

• Live shows are pretty much like the center of the storm... where the power comes from, the most raw experience. That's the juice. That's where we hit the hardest.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Power

• The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • Teach
  • Busy

• When caught in the clutches of a predator, the jelly produces a light display that is a pinwheel of light that is basically a call for help. It serves to attract the attention of a larger predator that may attack their attacker, thereby affording them an opportunity for escape.

  

  Edith Widder
  • May
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • You
  • Always

• It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • World
  • Live
  • Example

• But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Country
  • Help
  • Community

• I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Serious
  • Feel
  • Mad

• A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Changed
  • Lot
  • Survivor

• I'm not interested in being Franchise Boy.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Boy
  • Being
  • Franchise

• Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • Equality
  • Priority

• His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.

  

  Mae West
  • Mother
  • Should
  • Him

• Due process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to advocate for their students, and to not fear retribution for speaking the truth or teaching controversial subjects like evolution. As political winds shift in school districts, due process also wards off patronage or nepotism.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • School
  • Truth
  • Political

• Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Women
  • Technology
  • Choose

• My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Mother
  • Christmas
  • Brothers

• Machines are becoming devastatingly capable of things like killing. Those machines have no place for empathy. There's billions of dollars being spent on that. Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy.

  

  David Hanson
  • Character
  • Plant
  • Empathy

• My mom and dad always taught acting, so instead of getting me babysitters, they would just bring me to class.

  

  Blake Lively
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Norwich station has your standard late-Victorian brick, cast-iron, and glass shed retrofitted with the bright molded plastic of various fast-food franchises. I gratefully staggered in the direction of Upper Crust and considered asking if I could stick my head under their coffee spigot but settled for a couple of double espressos and a chicken tikka masala baguette instead.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Direction
  • Plastic
  • Baguettes

• I'm concerned about what I see is the fetishization around entrepreneurship in Africa. It's almost like it's the next new liberal thing. Like, 'Don't worry that there's no power because, hey, you're going to do solar and innovate around that.'

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Power
  • Worry

• My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.

  

  Donald Knuth
  • Style
  • Text

• Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Summer
  • Comforting