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Jerry Pournelle Quotes

Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list.

Jerry Pournelle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Best New York Think New Land Never

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Jim Rohn

Wind Direction Brainy Go Sails Way

For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them.

John Ridley

Learning Children History Time Black

I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.

Roy Rogers

Good School High School Never High

Education means teaching kids how to do stuff and how to think about stuff. Education is a pretty simple concept with a very clear way to measure results: you give some kind of an exam - maybe it's one of those standardized tests all kids hate, maybe it's some kind of essay, but whatever it is, it'll measure the results, and the kids will hate it.

Mike Gallagher

Education Hate Simple Think You Way

I've learned a lot about how people have to fight through their whole lives just to be themselves.

Josh Hutcherson

Fight People Through Whole Just How

I've always had really wonderful people around me. But early on, I remember I would walk into a session or go do something with some musicians, and they viewed me, basically, as their chick singer.

Dianne Reeves

Walk People Me Musicians Remember

As soon as I have the script in my hand, I'll be up in my apartment room pacing up and down learning it because it's just such a lovely thing to do.

David Thewlis

Learning Down Hand Lovely Up Room

I'm just a husband waltzing in the background.

Bruce Greenwood

Husband Background Just

As an actor, these kinds of big-comedic-centerpiece characters is just one thing that I love to do.

Ari Graynor

Love Actor One Thing Just One Just

I love myself the way I am, but people will always message me about other people with vitiligo who cover their skin. 'Winnie Harlow, you need to tell them that they need to love themselves the way they are and stop covering their skin!' No! If that's what makes them comfortable and what makes them happy, let them be.

Winnie Harlow

Love Myself I Am Happy People Me

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

William Hazlitt

Man Mind Down Clock Always Up

Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into.

Portia de Rossi

Yourself Dress World Think Present