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Charles C. Mann Quotes

The queue of activists, interest groups, and ordinary people wringing their hands over what a President Donald Trump might do in office is long, and environmentalists are at the front of the line.

Charles C. Mann

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1955

Topics

People Hands Long Donald Trump Line

In high school and college, I'd set a bunch of goals for myself. I wanted to be the lead effects supervisor on one of these really big, innovative visual effects productions, something on the scale of a 'Star Wars' movie. And I wanted to work on a project that wins the Academy Award for best visual effects.

John Knoll

Work Goals Myself Best School Award

I always try to write from memory, and I always try to use memory as an editor. So when I'm thinking of something like a relationship or whatever, then I'm letting my memory tell me what the important things were.

Jeffrey Brown

Relationship Memory Me Thinking Try

We, as individuals, must be responsible for our careers with the goal of reaching our highest potential. The job of a manager is to tap into that energy that's already there.

Srikumar Rao

Job Energy Potential Goal Manager

Our bureaucracy had excelled at compartmentalizing intelligence - we had a 'need to know' system - but by 2004, it was impossible to foresee what elements of our organization would and would not need to know a given piece of information.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Intelligence Organization Impossible

When I started on the London circuit in 1989, nationwide there were about 150 to 200 people that were what you could call alternative comedians - that weren't club comics. Now, last year when the Laughing Horse chain of clubs held a new acts competition, a thousand people entered. So, there are 800 people more.

Stewart Lee

Competition People Horse Year You

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

Tony Robbins

Opportunity Preparation Luck Meeting

I have stamina, and I have energy.

Rita Moreno

Energy Stamina

Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.

Lord Mountbatten

Sweet Crazy Aunt Charming Even

I think I'm always conscious of not letting things fit into a specific box. Being a filmmaker and trying to chart a career, you never want anyone to be able to pigeonhole you into one specific thing.

Jonathan Levine

Think Trying You Career Want Never

Theater audiences don't pull punches. They'll let you know when they're feeling ripped off.

Johnny Galecki

You Feeling Know Off Pull Ripped

Demarcus Cousins, he can move. With his size, he can really use his size on the perimeter against anybody. That's what I want to do when I get to the league.

Deandre Ayton

Want Cousins Size Against Move Get

I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind.

Chico Hamilton

Life Music Painting Medicine True