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Jerry Pournelle Quotes

We're basically after Joe's beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be.

Jerry Pournelle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 7, 1933 - September 8, 2017

Topics

Money Beer Better You Him Sure

The invention of the micro-loan was a big surprise to me. Who would have guessed loans of less than $20 made to poor people in undeveloped countries could create thriving local economies? And, even more surprisingly, that they more reliably pay off their debts than the wealthy of the world.

Joel A. Barker

People Me World Surprise Create Pay

Some people are really nice about it. I get Saudi princes and famous people stopping me in L.A. and saying, 'You're Stifler's mom. Can I take a picture with you?' But then you get people like her putting their camera in your face without asking. They think they can do whatever they like.

Jennifer Coolidge

People Me Mom Saying Face Think

Really connect to food and know what you're eating.

Anna Getty

Food Eating You Know Connect Really

I don't control it at all. It's all up to the musicians in the group. They control it. They make all the cues, and they tell me what they want, and then I act like a mirroring device so that everyone can see what the cues are.

John Zorn

Me Control Musicians Want Group See

Public-policy-wise, if you want to be consistent, crude oil is a bulk commodity, and you should be able to export it. I would rather the crude go to U.S. refineries to get refined and then export the refined product because we get double, triple the money.

John Shimkus

Money You Go Want Product Oil

Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.

Steven Bochco

Work Opportunity People Me Street

Hardly anyone liked R.E.M. who didn't like them way too much, so part of being an R.E.M. fan meant getting wildly overinvested and then feeling vaguely disappointed by whatever they did next.

Rob Sheffield

Feeling Too Much Way Next Whatever

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Birth Decline Languages Had

Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it.

Javier Bardem

Me Curiosity Sick Speak America New

My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah.

Drake

Green Emotion Always Artists Sade

When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting.

Bobby Darin

First Out Sing Come Exciting Few

Incorporating genetics into a platform with the reach of ResearchKit will accelerate insights into illness and disease even further.

Anne Wojcicki

Reach Genetics Will Illness Disease