Ellen Ullman Quotes

Y2K is showing everyone what technical people have been dealing with for years: the complex, muddled, bug-bitten systems we all depend on, and their nasty tendency toward the occasional disaster.

Ellen Ullman

Recitation: by Male by Female

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  • Nationality: american

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PeopleEveryoneDependYearsComplex

I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you.

Andre Benjamin

DressThinkEndYouPicturesMovies

I think America's obsession with guns and with violence in media and society is a horrible sickness.

Jeff Lemire

SocietySicknessThinkAmericaMedia

I seem to go through phases with collecting stuff: vintage Japanese men's magazines, coconut monkey carvings, '70s belt buckles.

Michael Bastian

MenVintageGoMonkeyCoconutSeem

I just don't think it's true that people can't do something else after they've done something that seems so permanent.

Steve Burns

PeopleThinkDoneTruePermanent

It was always very clear to me that God was sovereign in salvation.

Trip Lee

GodMeAlwaysSalvationClearVery

Without creativity, I'd be just 'blah blah blah.'

RJ Cyler

CreativityWithoutJustBlah

I'm always very careful to say I'm Irish-Ethiopian because I feel Ethiopian and I look Ethiopian and I am Ethiopian. But there are 81 languages in Ethiopia, and I don't know any of them.

Ruth Negga

I AmFeelLookKnowSayAlways

There's always room to improve in a restaurant. A restaurant is better or worse every day than it was the day before. It's impossible not to be, because it's human.

Michael Mina

DayImpossibleRestaurantBetter

It's so strange how people can be judgmental when they see a pregnant woman dressed in high heels and tight dresses. Being pregnant shouldn't make you feel less of a woman, but more of a woman!

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

WomanPeopleFeelYouHigh Heels

People are proud to be from Baltimore. In any industry you work in, you need support to survive. And this city has that support for anyone who was born here or lived here. And it also gives you the feeling, 'Oh, I stand for this place. And if I do something I'm not proud of, I might not make my town proud.' And I want to make Baltimore proud.

Derek Waters

WorkSupportPeopleCityProudYou

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

TimeIllusionLunchtimeDoubly

There's a real question of what the United States could do if we detain somebody out of Syria right now.

Cory Gardner

NowQuestionRightRealOutUnited

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