Rumaan Alam Quotes

Children's books deal in idealized worlds, so they're a document of how our notion of ideal worlds has changed over time.

Rumaan Alam

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ChildrenTimeOverDealChangedOur

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

John Foster Dulles

ArtWarYouLostGoRun

The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.

Michael D. Barnes

BeginningFightSafetyGunOverOur

'Reno 911: Miami!' is a terrible, terrible title, and all the reviews - good and mostly bad - nobody pointed out how stupid a title that was. But you can hardly come up with a sentence that's more awkward.

Robert Ben Garant

GoodStupidMiamiYouBadNobody

The goods of the world market are available for Cuba to purchase, but all the foreign exchange is monopolized by the regime, which uses it for its own power and pleasure.

Robert Zubrin

PowerWorldCubaPleasureOwn

Essentially, you know, one of the great advantages of working in science fiction is it does give you an opportunity to talk about interesting and somewhat controversial themes and social issues and in a way that doesn't really threaten the audience, because I'm not challenging their particular points of view.

Ronald D. Moore

OpportunityScienceGreatInteresting

In order to displace a prevailing theory or paradigm in science, it is not enough to merely point out what it cannot explain; you have to offer a new theory that explains more data, and do so in a testable way.

Michael Shermer

ScienceDataEnoughYouNewWay

The philosophy to 'buy and hold' is a philosophy that I use to manage funds.

Michael Lee-Chin

PhilosophyBuyHoldUseFunds

Because muscle is heavier than fat, dancers weigh more than you might think, but they are usually very lean.

Deborah Bull

ThinkFatYouMoreMuscleDancers

I've been gone for a long time. I really want to give the fans something that they deserve to have. So, I'm working really hard on this. I really want to make it the best work I've done so far.

Brandy Norwood

WorkTimeBestLongLong TimeDone

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

Auguste Rodin

NatureUglyArtistNeverAnything

I want to settle down.

Ali Fazal

DownWantSettle

In a free market, businesses compete for customers by keeping prices down and for labor by keeping wages up.

Peter Schiff

FreeDownLaborUpCompeteMarket

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