Charles Platt Quotes

I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me feel like a bug stuck to a piece of duct tape. Ever since my teenage years, when I used to read a lot of science fiction and took it much too seriously, I've dreamed of somehow reaching escape velocity. I am, you might say, anti-gravity.

Charles Platt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 9, 1945

Topics

ScienceI AmMeFeelYouEarth

I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place?

Robert M. Gates

TechnologyRealityYouDownPlace

My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win.

Tom Hicks

GoodStyleWinPlaceWantKeep

I believe the most important aspect of Medicare is not the structure of the program but the guarantee to all Americans that they will have high quality health care as they get older.

Ron Wyden

HealthQualityBelieveCareWill

We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.

Rupert Murdoch

BusinessGameInformationNewsLift

I've got two young sons who, when I ask them and their friends how they feel about gay marriage, kinda give me one of those looks like, 'Gosh, Mom, why are you even asking that question?'

Lisa Murkowski

MarriageMeMomFeelFriendsYou

I think we need a lot less ideology around health care.

Jon Ossoff

HealthThinkCareNeedIdeologyLot

If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.

Don Rickles

FunnyPeopleInsultMeanWere

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

Douglas Coupland

LongForgetInventionSeniorNatural

Fortunately, I've done so many interviews that I've become very good at detecting when someone is giving a less-than-candid reply.

Brandon Stanton

GoodGivingSomeoneDoneBecome

Sundance is the only hand that feeds for women directors.

Allison Anders

WomenHandOnlyDirectorsFeeds

For us, #BlackLivesMatter is really a re-humanization project. It's a way for us to love each other again, to love ourselves, and to project that love into the world so that we can transform it.

Alicia Garza

LoveWorldWayProjectUsTransform

I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could've at least had nine or eight.

Wilt Chamberlain

MeYouGamesBostonRingsAgainst

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