Charles C. Mann Quotes

Seoul and Shanghai, Jaipur and Jakarta; shining skyscrapers, pricey hotels, traffic-jammed streets ablaze with neon - all were built atop a foundation of laboratory-bred rice.

Charles C. Mann

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• Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.'

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • America
  • Morning

• I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Time
  • Women
  • Family

• My whole deal is I want to have a principle-based, member-driven caucus.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Want
  • Deal
  • Caucus

• It's fair to characterise me as competitive and determined, but anyone who works with me will attest to the fact I believe very strongly in the notion of servant leadership.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Believe
  • Works
  • Fair

• I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Circumstances
  • Research

• 'Matilda' was my favorite movie to film and my favorite to watch, as well.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Movie
  • Film
  • Favorite

• Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Art
  • Three
  • Pillars

• I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Women
  • Children

• Es ist so bequem, unmündig zu sein. Habe ich ein Buch, das für mich Verstand hat, einen Seelsorger, der für mich Gewissen hat, einen Arzt, der für mich die Diät beurtheilt u. s. w., so brauche ich mich ja nicht selbst zu bemühen. Ich habe nicht nöthig zu denken, wenn ich nur bezahlen kann.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Die

• Pat Robertson at a national convention, equipped with delegates, certainly remains a terrible sight. He is a charlatan of Chaucerian dimensions.

  

  Pat Robertson

• My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Community
  • Failure
  • Service

• Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is life itself.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • Art

• Pleasant, a steed in a leather halter; Also pleasant, alliance with a king. Pleasant, the hero that destroys not the yielding; Also pleasant, the splendid Cymraec language.

  

  Taliesin
  • King
  • Hero

• ...like a ship, clean and trim on a dirty sea of pox and camel-dung.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Sea
  • Dirty

• They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge … no Gods imagined by our minds have ever possessed the powers they will command … But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow of Creation; for we knew the Universe when it was young.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Time
  • May
  • Knowledge

• Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.

  

  Edward Young

• An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

  

  Avicenna
  • Death

• Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Learning

• I mean, come on, Beyonce's the queen of pop music. She's the queen. If you could run for queen... I would put her name in the suggestion box. She's incredible.

  

  Darren Criss
  • Music
  • Queen
  • Incredible

• The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.

  

  Olivier Dahan
  • People
  • Real
  • Yourself

• The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.

  

  H. Rider Haggard
  • Men
  • Ambition
  • Acorns

• I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Written

• Basically we are all the same human beings with the same potential to be a good human being or a bad human being. The important thing is to realize the positive side and try to increase that; realize the negative side and try to reduce. That's the way.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Way
  • Positive
  • Inspiration

• Seoul and Shanghai, Jaipur and Jakarta; shining skyscrapers, pricey hotels, traffic-jammed streets ablaze with neon - all were built atop a foundation of laboratory-bred rice.

  

  Charles C. Mann