Annalee Newitz Quotes
The U.N.'s current projection is that humanity will number 9.3 billion individuals in 2050 and then hit 10.1 billion by 2100. Meanwhile, our energy resources are dwindling, and droughts threaten our food supplies.
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I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.
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I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don't necessarily try to put on a show. That's what my father's thing was, and he was great at it. Everything I say is because I feel it, and it comes out of my mouth. It's not scripted.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.
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People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.
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I left Xerox for the non-profit sector because it was clear to me that only public/private partnerships can pull off a turnaround plan at the scale we need to tackle global poverty.
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I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.
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My architectural drive was to design new types of buildings to help poor people, especially following natural disasters and catastrophes... I will use whatever time is left to me to keep doing what I have been doing, which is to help humanity.
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When will we get a female director-general of the BBC? Where is the colour when you go further up the food chain? It disappears.
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The U.N.'s current projection is that humanity will number 9.3 billion individuals in 2050 and then hit 10.1 billion by 2100. Meanwhile, our energy resources are dwindling, and droughts threaten our food supplies.
