Clive Thompson Quotes

America has always had tinkerers, including just about any teenager who ever hot-rodded a Camaro.

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• There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • No Fear

• What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • God
  • Everything
  • Himself

• Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Good
  • Know
  • Best

• Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Nathan Kirsh
  • Real
  • Need
  • Busy

• How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Important
  • Long
  • Live

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Political
  • Organization

• We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Good
  • Done
  • Start

• What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Book
  • Information
  • Questions

• We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have children, and develop a rich social, sexual, and intellectual life, but we know almost nothing about our surroundings.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Life
  • Children
  • Small

• Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Future
  • Audience
  • Engagement

• Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Done
  • Know
  • Always

• My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Great
  • Long

• During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Comedy
  • Theatre
  • Doing

• I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.

  

  Harland Williams
  • People
  • Humor
  • Explore

• The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Found
  • Early
  • Communist

• I played point guard my whole life.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Life
  • Point
  • Guard

• Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Purpose
  • Animals

• If you were to ask my agent, they would confirm this: I'm drawn to locations. What really drew me to 'The 4400,' aside from the fact that it was sci-fi, was the fact that it was shot in the city of my dreams: Vancouver.

  

  Billy Campbell
  • City

• And I was the only black kid in my school for almost all of my childhood, until I was a teenager. So imagine, if you will, being 6 feet tall by third grade, so essentially being a living maypole.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • School
  • Black
  • Childhood

• I learned in America that Americans are into results. Americans don't care where you came from, what your family did, what school you graduated from. They care about if you can deliver the results. That's what makes America the country it is.

  

  Mark Burnett
  • Country
  • Family
  • School

• I can't live without my cup of tea. When I was a judge on 'America's Next Top Model,' they had to put me in a hotel where I had my own kitchen, because they can't make tea in America. I was happy then because I could make my own.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Live
  • America
  • Happy

• Paris will give bicyclists more rights when it installs 4,300 signs throughout the city, allowing them to barrel though red lights and turn right on red.

  

  Elaine Sciolino
  • City
  • Red
  • Paris

• America has always had tinkerers, including just about any teenager who ever hot-rodded a Camaro.

  

  Clive Thompson
  • America
  • Teenager