Lawrence Wright Quotes

When you're first starting on a project, you feel shy because you don't know very much, and you know that you're going to be ignorant and seem ignorant.

Lawrence Wright

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 2, 1947

Topics

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We played by feel. We felt as though you could put us on any stage, and we would find a way to win that crowd over. We had that attitude: We can't fail. You might not like it right now, but you will.

Angus Young

AttitudeWinFeelYouFindWay

I see courage everywhere I go in Africa. Fearless human rights activists in Darfur. Women peace advocates in eastern Congo. Former child soldiers in Northern Uganda who now are helping other former child soldiers return to civilian life.

John Prendergast

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There is still refinement needed - we are working on being able to do the same things at lower light levels and with a larger field of view.

Stefan Hell

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In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Simone Weil

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I have an affinity for the old Seattle coffee shops, places like the Green Onion and the Copper Kettle, the classic kind of coffee bar - little places that served breakfast, lunch and dinner and have pretty much disappeared.

Tom Douglas

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I couldn't care less who is mad at me as long as the entrepreneur comes out ahead.

Ron Conway

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The first one I did was an action film with Sammo Hung and George Lam, but I had the usual female role for that time: you know, damsel in distress, rescued by the hero.

Michelle Yeoh

TimeHeroActionYouKnowFirst

Diplomacy is important, extremely important, and I don't think these reductions at the State Department are appropriate because many times diplomacy is a lot more effective - and cert cheaper - than military engagement.

Mitch McConnell

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Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

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Not only have computers changed the way we think, they've also discovered what makes humans think - or think we're thinking. At least enough to predict and even influence it.

Douglas Rushkoff

InfluenceComputersThinkThinking

I really love advertising art of the '50s and the way mid-century design was often represented in jazzy, fast art.

Christopher McCulloch

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I'm an absolute fan of Angela Bassett. I think she's a great, great actress. In the biopics, she is so moving. She's very rare. It's something that doesn't happen that much, to see an actress inventing a new way of showing 'woman' onscreen, and a new way of being beautiful.

Arnaud Desplechin

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