Ramez Naam Quotes

A new idea - whether it's a way to collect solar energy more efficiently or a cheaper way to desalinate sea water or a new seed to boost the amount of food we can grow - can stretch the physical resources we have, or even multiply them. And the ideas themselves don't ever wear out.

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• The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Wise
  • Contradict

• I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Stubborn

• I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Thought
  • Passionate
  • WIld

• I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Looking
  • Got
  • Six

• English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

  

  E. B. White
  • Education
  • Sometimes
  • English

• I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Me
  • Never
  • Everybody Else

• I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Up
  • Look
  • Definitely

• Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Today
  • Discipline
  • Outside

• I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Running

• I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Heart
  • Feeling
  • Ideas

• We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Choices
  • Need
  • Face

• While the Assads are despotic, George H.W. Bush made the father an ally in Desert Storm, and Ehud Barak offered to return to Hafez Assad the Golan Heights in exchange for a peace deal.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Father
  • Peace
  • Storm

• A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • America
  • Talking
  • Internal

• Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.

  

  Yuna
  • Racism
  • Generations
  • Fairness

• There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians in France.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Against
  • France
  • Attack

• People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Appreciate
  • Follow

• I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Support
  • Health

• Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.

  

  Tarja Halonen
  • Look
  • Rules
  • Own

• China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Satisfaction isn't a state that comes easily to me.

  

  Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
  • State
  • Satisfaction
  • Come

• I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn't really allowed to pursue acting till I got older.

  

  Rainey Qualley
  • Mom
  • Childhood
  • Acting

• You show people playing poker or hacking into a computer; it feels so significant in the script, and then when you see it on the screen, it loses something. But there's something about cooking - food being prepared is incredibly captivating. It became just a fun box of tools to use as a director.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • People
  • Fun
  • Food

• A new idea - whether it's a way to collect solar energy more efficiently or a cheaper way to desalinate sea water or a new seed to boost the amount of food we can grow - can stretch the physical resources we have, or even multiply them. And the ideas themselves don't ever wear out.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Water