John Pomfret Quotes

Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.

John Pomfret

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LifeGoodFaceThinkYouJournalism

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

Stephen Hawking

AttentionSpiritHuman SpiritLimit

When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it.

Michio Kaku

LoveBeautySimplicityEleganceYou

I'm not a racist, that's what so insane about this, and yet it's said, it comes through, it fires out of me, and even now in the passion that's here as I confront myself.

Michael Richards

PassionMyselfMeSaidNowOut

It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible.

Lucien Bouchard

LifeChildrenChildhoodIntelligence

If you were the first person ever to design an application for the iPhone and you patented it, you would be very, very better off than we are right now, you know? But you've got to be the first one to do it. So I figured that Led Zeppelin or the Stones were going to do it unless we just got on to it. So I got cracking with the guys from Apple.

Dhani Harrison

BetterDesignYouApplePersonKnow

I don't know how to put this, but to some people, the NFL is basically modern-day slavery. Don't get me wrong - we get paid a lot of money. There's a sense of 'shut up and play,' that this is entertainment for other people. Then, when we go out in public, we're like zoo animals. We're not human beings.

Doug Baldwin

MoneyPeopleMeSlaveryWrongPlay

The fun part about doing our movies is that you're creating something using the talents of people rather than finding these pathetic people who are thrust into these situations. That, to me, is completely artless.

Christopher Guest

FunPeopleMeDoingFindingYou

I'm not too picky. I'm not waiting, sitting around for the ideal and perfect role. I like to work, so I try to make the best of whatever opportunity comes up.

Christopher Lloyd

WorkOpportunityBestWaitingTry

Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure.

Clint Eastwood

LovePowerStructurePoliticians

I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and really focusing on my music career.

Brantley Gilbert

MusicFootballCollegeCareerKind

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

William Lloyd Garrison

MenLostWillReasonTyrantsGive

If gravity were somewhat stronger or weaker, stars wouldn't exist, and neither would you. And the same can be said of other constants of physics. Several have to be 'just right.'

Seth Shostak

StarsStrongerYouPhysicsSaid

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