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Charles Platt Quotes

Personally, I believe that government, rather than money, tends to be the primary factor limiting the development of new technologies.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Money Government Believe New Rather

Language is very deceiving. In certain languages, there is certain vocabulary that doesn't exist in other languages. It totally changes how people feel about things.

People Language Feel Changes Things

I've always been a late bloomer, so I never feel like, 'Oh, I'm gettin' older; I guess everything is gonna stop.' I'm the opposite: 'Oh, I'm just getting started.'

Feel Late Getting Started Stop Never

He looked like such a Republican. He dressed like Pee-Wee Herman. But had I known what he had done when I was reading about him, I might have thought different.

Reading Thought Dressed Done Him He

I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather of cinema. Digital animators still treat his images like the Bible. He was a very obsessed man.

Time Man Treat Bible Early Cinema

The studios basically, besides developing some material, their strength is distribution. Distribution in any other business is a cost that you incur. You know, in a trucking business, you eat it. In a film business, distribution is a profit center.

Michael Douglas

Strength Business You Profit Know

In the 1970s, family history wasn't yet thought of a serious field for study. I was terrified of being laughed at by other historians. I called my book 'The Social Origins of Private Life.' It should have been 'As Pompous as You Want to Be.' Every sentence was academic jargon, and if I said X, I qualified it with Y.

Stephanie Coontz

Life Family History Book Thought

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

Soren Kierkegaard

Life Love God Moment Prayer Long

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Family Age Character Opinion Stream

The first thing you see when you walk into a store is color.

Walk Color You First See Store

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

Women Money Texas You Say Vote

People tend to say Christians are always judging, but the word of God convicts Christians and urges them to obey God's commands.

God People Say Judging Always Obey

To seek advice is easy, easy-approach job. To find the truth by yourself, that is a little difficult, and you have to work hard continuously, and you will find it.

Work Truth Job Yourself Work Hard

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