Beeban Kidron Quotes

Whether in cave paintings or the latest uses of the Internet, human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

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• There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Credit
  • Satisfaction
  • Truck

• Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Children
  • Telling

• Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Writing
  • You
  • Now

• But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Ocean

• Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Man
  • Simple
  • Study

• Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • People
  • Think
  • Myself

• It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Freedom
  • Party
  • Election

• We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Two
  • Principle
  • Alike

• The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Environment

• I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Age
  • Artist
  • Young

• All truth is not to be told at all times.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Truth
  • Times
  • Truth Is

• Migration is as natural as breathing, as eating, as sleeping. It is part of life, part of nature. So we have to find a way of establishing a proper kind of scenario for modern migration to exist. And when I say 'we,' I mean the world. We need to find ways of making that migration not forced.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • World
  • Nature

• I came here when I was 20. I came to go to school, but I ended up working for Halston as an assistant. That happened in a very strange way. My father had a meeting with Halston. And my father said to me, 'Join me. I want you to meet this amazing American designer.' And I happened to just tag along, and Halston offered me a job.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Up
  • School
  • Job

• It is very true that D.C. often operates in the land of caricature.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • True
  • Very
  • Land

• The votes of 60,000 Floridians were not counted. The Court threw out all 60,00 votes. And that's what the newspapers around the country are counting now.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Country
  • Now
  • Court

• Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • True
  • Space
  • Focus

• Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.

  

  Imran Khan
  • War
  • Because
  • Been

• Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement.

  

  Joan Blades
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Mother

• It's not quite as important who you beat as that you end up on top.

  

  Bode Miller
  • Up
  • Important

• When people say, 'Well, I don't talk to my family because they're all conservatives,' or 'I don't talk to my family because they're racist,' I'm, like, 'No, no, no; that's exactly who you need to be talking to.'

  

  Alicia Garza
  • People
  • Family

• Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because that kind of time is real.

  

  Leslie Marmon Silko
  • Time
  • Real
  • Reality

• Whether in cave paintings or the latest uses of the Internet, human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

  

  Beeban Kidron