Clara Shih Quotes

With new technologies promising endless conveniences also comes new vulnerabilities in terms of privacy and security. And nobody is immune.

Clara Shih

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• A lot of the stuff about white-supremacist groups was very family-friendly: 'We just love our people.' One the surface, you go, 'Gee, what's wrong with loving your people?' But when you love your people to the exclusion of everything else that's remotely different, that's when you get into trouble.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • World
  • Mind
  • Funny

• In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • God
  • Church
  • Religious

• Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Important
  • Ambition

• For guys who are into fitness, I think it's important to wear slim-fit stuff that is pretty tight so they can show off the bodies they have been working hard to have. Women are going to appreciate that.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Important
  • Women
  • Pretty

• We are working essentially to build a leadership force of folks who will, during their first two years of teaching, actually put their kids on a different trajectory - not just survive as a new teacher, but actually help close the achievement gap for their kids.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Help

• I don't want to be submerged by depression.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Want
  • Depression
  • Submerged

• Pair up in threes.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Up
  • Pair

• But simultaneously with the development of capitalist production the credit system also develops. The money-capital which the capitalist cannot as yet employ in his own business is employed by others, who pay him interest for its use.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Money
  • Business

• There are certain myths that have persisted throughout the ages, and this one has remained very potent in modern culture. The Arthurian cycle involves numerous kinds of relationships, not only between men but also between men and women. In our rather less structured society nowadays defining these relationships can sometimes be difficult.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Men
  • Women
  • Society

• My mother was 14 when she was in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. My mother’s alive and well, but only because of America. Without America’s military, the world would be in deep… fill-in-the-blank. I’m forever grateful for that.

  

  Gene Klein Kiss
  • World
  • She
  • America

• Slavery in this Country I have seen hanging over it like a black cloud for half a century…

  

  John Adams
  • Country
  • Black
  • Slavery

• Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Fear

• …the sudden rise of a religious movement in the West that restricts the eating of beef and thereby saves billions of tons of grain and provides a nourishing diet for the world as a whole.

  

  Alvin Toffler
  • World
  • Religious

• In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Envy

• I tend to think in images and feelings rather than non-abstract concepts.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division

• We want young people to come forward with bright ideas; we want the women and men in our country to have jobs.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• My claim to fame has always been that iconic picture that ended up in 'The San Francisco Chronicle' of Bill Russell jumping over my head.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Up
  • Picture

• I've ended up as a filmmaker who really loves the movie part of movies. That time in my life was a big influence on the kind of movies that I ended up making. I always think I'm going to make a movie that's gritty and real, but then I make a movie that's like an opera. I fight it at first and then that's just the way it is.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Engagement

• In ease of body and peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level, and the beggar, who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Life
  • Different
  • Mind

• If you torture words enough, they'll confess to anything.

  

  Anu Garg
  • Words

• Although oil is a commodity, it's still not a commodity like coffee, which, thank God, we will have with us always. At some point the oil will run out.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • God
  • Coffee

• With new technologies promising endless conveniences also comes new vulnerabilities in terms of privacy and security. And nobody is immune.

  

  Clara Shih