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Andrew Nikiforuk Quotes

What slavery really demonstrated was that we don't really know how to use energy wisely and that we can be incredibly abusive and barbaric.

Andrew Nikiforuk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: canadian

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Slavery Energy Know Use How Really

I've developed a lot of reform proposals myself and been accused of trying to destroy Social Security, when the whole point was to try to save it. I think most people know that Social Security is bankrupt.

Myself People Think Trying Security

I can't remember if it was in the third grade in school, I was being told that two amoeba happened to hit in a muddy puddle of water two billion years ago, and I was an accident. I was the result. I wasn't real smart, but I said, 'I don't like the sound of that.'

Water School Smart Remember Result

Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate.

Jennifer Weiner

Character People Writing Voice You

My style was established in the Forties and Fifties, then got dragged through the decades and picked up a couple more things on the way.

Style Way More Through Up Things

The baby boomers have dropped the ball on their burden of responsibility.

Responsibility Baby Burden Ball

I spent every bit of my money to try and get a Mickey Mantle card, and I don't have one. Growing up in Oklahoma, Mickey Mantle was my idol. And here I am, and I'd go pick cotton to have enough money, and I'd buy all of these packs, and I'd chew all of the gum, and I'd never find a Mickey Mantle card.

Money I Am Growing Up Enough Find

I realized early on that I always hated girls who used their femininity to get what they wanted.

Early Always Femininity Used Get

Might we... be doing something with our brains that cannot be described in computational terms at all? How do our feelings of conscious awareness - of happiness, pain, love, aesthetic sensibility, will, understanding, etc. - fit into such a computational picture?

Love Happiness Pain Picture Doing

You wouldn't think there was a need for a Coase Theorem, really.

Think You Need Really Theorem

I think a lot of it is that we used to tour so much that we never really had time to write songs.

Time Think Never Write Used Tour

I think no-one was surprised to hear that Janis Joplin was dead. She seemed to be living up all of her energy that she had to give in just a few years. Now you listen to covers of her songs by various women, and it's pale in comparison.

Michael Wadleigh

Women Energy Think You Now Living

I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties.

Joyce Carol Oates

Age Writing Young More Never Always

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