Lucretius Quotes

Desine qua propter novitate exterritus ipsaexpuere ex animo rationem, sed magis acriiudicio perpende, et si tibi vera videntur,dede manus, aut, si falsum est, accingere contra.

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• At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • People
  • Interesting
  • News

• I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.

  

  Yuji Horii
  • Why
  • Wonder
  • Battle

• You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Start
  • Books
  • Really

• Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Good
  • High
  • Used

• I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.

  

  Gary Carr
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• Nothing is taken lightly in 'The Hunger Games.'

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Taken
  • Games
  • Nothing

• We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Live
  • Criticism
  • Circle

• I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Same

• AI does not keep me up at night. Almost no one is working on conscious machines. Deep learning algorithms, or Google search, or Facebook personalization, or Siri or self driving cars or Watson, those have the same relationship to conscious machines as a toaster does to a chess-playing computer.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Up
  • Night
  • Relationship

• The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television, and yet they are absolutely invisible.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Woman
  • Television
  • Watches

• Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • Always
  • Go

• My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle of approach and actually blocks of text. It was very - actually, it was a very good study, and got me a job in an ad agency. And they also decided that I had to - to give me a very ugly Plexiglas trophy for it.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Good
  • Job
  • Study

• We have had more sales for this year's grand prix than any other, and we have been helped in that by the fact that Jenson had 10 podiums last season and looks like a winner. It is good for British motor racing if he is there and doing well.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • Good
  • Year
  • Sales

• The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • History

• Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Art
  • Experience
  • End

• I didn't have any Indigenous friends until I was in my 30s, and I'll always remember and be inspired by the remarkable friendship I had with Connie Bush, an outstanding Indigenous leader from Groot Eylandt on who was on the National Women's Advisory Council with me.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Women
  • Friends
  • Remember

• Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.

  

  Ossie Davis
  • Power
  • Evil
  • Struggle

• Laughter is carbonated holiness.

  

  Anne Lamott
  • Laughter

• Every time I go back to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to wait for my test results, and I wonder if I've relapsed or if I'm doing okay, I don't think about my company. I'm proud of everything we've done, but at the end of the day, it comes back to family. I'm still a wife, a mom, a sister - all of those things.

  

  Kathy Giusti
  • Time
  • Family
  • Done

• Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.

  

  Allen Klein
  • September

• I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.

  

  Brian Lumley
  • Time
  • American
  • Weird

• Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work - where they're strong, where they're weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it's harder with digital tools, particularly search engines.

  

  Clive Thompson
  • People
  • Work
  • Strong

• The fact that such objective and enduring knowledge exists and moreover, belongs to all of us is nothing short of a miracle. It suggests that mathematical concepts exist in a world separate from the physical and mental worlds.

  

  Edward Frenkel
  • Knowledge
  • Miracle
  • Exist

• Desine qua propter novitate exterritus ipsaexpuere ex animo rationem, sed magis acriiudicio perpende, et si tibi vera videntur,dede manus, aut, si falsum est, accingere contra.

  

  Lucretius