Chris Pine Quotes

I like a fragrance that you notice and want to find out more about - get a bit closer. I don't want to walk in and be jolted awake by someone's smell.

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• I am in a traditional financial services business - but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of technology is setting our industry up for disruption. What if this technology could do for the transfer of value what the Internet did for the transfer of information?

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • Business
  • Technology

• First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us - especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Work
  • America

• I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. There is art everywhere, murals on the walls. It's beautiful.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Engineering

• There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Truth
  • Consensus

• Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Actor
  • Just
  • Brilliant

• It took 23 years from Abraxane being conceived to us showing now with conclusiveness that it works in pancreatic cancer. We cannot afford as a society to wait another 23 years to make sure that the patients get the right care, at the right time, at the right place.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Time
  • Society
  • Cancer

• Sometimes women who are taller aren't comfortable with it, but I love being tall.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Women
  • Being
  • Comfortable

• Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • America
  • Two
  • Caribbean

• I'd like 'Rookie' to be a helpful resource, but I never want it to be too prescriptive. Hopefully, it also makes the reader feel encouraged to think for herself.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Think
  • Want
  • Like

• I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Hate
  • Ugly

• A family may be ruined by extravagance, but it is not always through ruin that the representatives in a family are to be found in humble or comparatively humble circumstances, but that the junior members of a gentle family went into trade.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Family
  • May
  • Humble

• Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Science
  • Powerful
  • Engineering

• Nothing changes like changes, because nothing changes but the changes.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Like
  • Nothing
  • Changes

• When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • People
  • Africa
  • South Africa

• I'm outraged that we're building roads, schools, and hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that we're doing it with borrowed money from China that we're paying interest on. I'm outraged.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Money
  • Building
  • Roads

• I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• Golf is flexibility, and I notice more guys injured. You can overdo this conditioning.

  

  Retief Goosen
  • Flexibility
  • Injured
  • Conditioning

• So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Interesting
  • Comedy

• The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.

  

  Elliot W. Eisner
  • Children
  • Teach
  • Answer

• If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I'm a believer in just open, free-form creativity, and you never know the surprises that life has in store, and that, purely on a creative level, there's no such thing as rules.

  

  Josh Trank
  • Creativity
  • Rules
  • Surprises

• I like a fragrance that you notice and want to find out more about - get a bit closer. I don't want to walk in and be jolted awake by someone's smell.

  

  Chris Pine