Alison Gopnik Quotes

We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

Alison Gopnik

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FearDeathEndBetterBodyHeaven

I only get unusual ailments.

Jimmy Kimmel

GetOnlyUnusual

Often, when I finish a film, I'll have that feeling inside me: 'I never want to do this ever again. I don't want to pretend anymore. I want to be myself and do that.'

Jeff Bridges

MyselfMeFeelingWantNeverFinish

I keep in touch with these people who knew me long before I got a record deal.

Trisha Yearwood

PeopleMeLongTouchKeepDeal

Foreigners like me have no privacy rights whatsoever. Yet we keep using U.S.-based services all the time, making us a legal target for gathering and storing our private information. Other countries do surveillance as well. But nobody has the global visibility that United States does.

Mikko Hypponen

TimeMeLegalInformationPrivacy

For me, inspiration isn't a sort of spark which lights the fire of the story. It's more like a thread, one of many, which you can tease out of a story once it's written, if you feel so inclined.

Michelle Paver

FireMeStorySparkFeelYou

For a global company, it is imperative to respect and honor local culture and weave that into the core company values rather than the other way around.

Julia Hartz

RespectCultureHonorValuesWay

You don't try to have the very lowest cost of an asset. You try to have the right asset. So rather than thinking about the lowest cost, the question is how do you get the best productivity.

Judith McKenna

BestThinkingYouTryRightCost

It sounds so incredibly selfish, but you just can't earn the same money doing theater as you can doing television and film. I know that's awful, but you get a mortgage and a family, and suddenly, paying that seems quite important.

Jonny Lee Miller

FamilyMoneySelfishDoingYouKnow

A lot of stuff doesn't faze me. I think it's because I was brought up in a small town, and normally, when you're from a small town, when you see a famous person, you'd be like, 'Oh my god. This never happens,' but I've always kind of been like nonchalant.

Jorja Smith

GodMeSmallThinkFamousYou

The bottom line is that sometimes the little things I do on the pitch provoke exaggerated reactions.

Diego Costa

Little ThingsSometimesLineLittle

I think about museums often. There are things that I want museums to do that they often don't. For me, I like it when there's a system within the museum that can continuously change - whether it's a museum that is nomadic or one that's designed so the building can shape-shift. I like restless spaces, and I want to be engaged.

Doug Aitken

ChangeMeBuildingThinkMuseum

If you're a photographer, they give you a camera. If you're a writer, they give you a typewriter. If you're an umpire, they give you an unseen object and they call it a strike zone, and nobody seems to agree with you no matter what you call.

Doug Harvey

CameraYouNobodyPhotographerAgree

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