Paul Di Filippo Quotes

I think humanity is not wise enough to know what genotype or somatype is going to be the most successful or the most fit - simply because we're not fully in control of our environment.

Paul Di Filippo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 29, 1954

Topics

WiseControlThinkEnoughHumanity

I played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything.

Jessica Pare

EverythingSingerBassBass Player

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

Jeff Goodell

BusinessOilNastySandsPolluting

I don't need a coach to tell me what to say. I need a coach to figure out what kind of shirt to wear and how to look at the camera and how to avoid, you know, picking your nose on camera.

Michael J. Saylor

MeCameraYouLookKnowKind

I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend the rest of my life wearing waistcoats. I got the chance to try everything. Not just Romeos, but pimps and grandfathers and even one role as a woman in a Naomi Wallace play called Slaughter City.

Tom Hiddleston

LifeWomanPeopleCityMeRest

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

Robert Browning

WiseSongThinkYouNeverFirst

Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life... You see fractals in plants, in flowers. Within the human lung are branches within branches.

Ron Eglash

LifeFlowersPlantsSandYouSee

I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals.

Lisa Loeb

MusicFocusSimpleTryingDownWay

As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which calls and data are diverted to government servers or the big data algorithms they've written to be used on our e-mails by intelligence agencies.

Douglas Rushkoff

TechnologyIntelligenceGovernmentMe

Biographies are, in their nature, far more difficult to make into films than novels, because novels come with plots constructed and dialogue written, whereas I don't invent dialogue for my subjects or plot their lives for them.

Claire Tomalin

NatureMoreDifficultDialoguePlot

There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard.

Clarence Thomas

LifeSurviveSomeoneYouHardLived

We cannot accept the status quo of throwing more taxpayer money into a broke and broken system.

Bruce Rauner

MoneyBrokenAcceptStatus QuoMore

I don't generally do movies that get good reviews.

Seann William Scott

GoodMoviesGetReviewsGenerally

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