Annalee Newitz Quotes
In the 1970s, as historians became enchanted with microhistories, economists were expanding the reach of their discipline. Nations, states and cities began to plan for the future by consulting with economists whose prognostications were shaped by investment cycles rather than historical ones.
Quotes to Explore
-
Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid.
-
Obviously, I am a huge Matt Morrison fan, and I am a big Lea Michele fan because I know those guys from way back.
-
Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
-
I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
-
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
-
I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
-
Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
-
Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
-
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
-
I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
-
Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
-
For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
-
Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
-
I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.
-
A lot of people don't like me.
-
It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.
-
I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.
-
I didn't fit in at school, and I didn't fit in at home, and I didn't know why. I was often lonely.
-
Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.
-
When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been, and all that you will be in the future.
-
Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
-
Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.
-
In the 1970s, as historians became enchanted with microhistories, economists were expanding the reach of their discipline. Nations, states and cities began to plan for the future by consulting with economists whose prognostications were shaped by investment cycles rather than historical ones.
