Annalee Newitz Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
-
Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
-
I'm Australian! How much more alpha can you get?
-
Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
-
I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
-
There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
-
If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
-
Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
-
When I was a kid, I was super shy.
-
I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
-
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
-
I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
-
There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.
-
The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
-
I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.
-
In many ways I'm similar to Barack Obama, who also has a strange name but was raised by a white American mother. His background is far more complicated than his name would suggest. Furthermore, the fact that I was a child during the hostage crisis has caused me to equate being Iranian with being alienated.
-
It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.
-
I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.
-
I don't act to be popular or see my face on the cover of magazines every time I go out to get coffee. I don't want to think about me all the time and what I look like.
-
Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.
-
As an eminent pioneer in the realm of high frequency currents... I congratulate you on the great successes of your life's work.
-
I adapt and I adjust to whatever environment I'm in.
-
Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home.
-
Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality.
