James Buchan Quotes

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.

James Buchan

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ScienceElectricityProsperityMarch

I love water - I'm an Aquarius, but that has nothing to do with it - and I've never been away from water in any place.

Andre Balazs

LoveWaterPlaceNothingNeverBeen

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.

Robert Morgan

LifeMyselfWritingCuriosityYou

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

Stella Adler

GreatBestIdeasAlwaysExperiences

I used to play in biker bars, different places like that.

Mike Dean

PlayPlacesUsedDifferentLike

Liberal idiocy surrounds us all. It threatens to destroy the values and lifestyles that millions of us cherish.

Mike Gallagher

ValuesCherishLiberalDestroyUs

Eat deliberately, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure.

Michael Pollan

PeoplePossibleAlwaysEatPleasure

I like to think of myself as a romantic person!

Luke Bracey

MyselfRomanticThinkPersonLike

Every building must have... its own soul.

Louis Kahn

SoulBuildingOwnMustEvery

Now everybody's got a video camera, so go make videos with your friends or see if you can get a part in a film school thing that's being done.

Joshua Malina

SchoolFriendsCameraYouGoDone

I used to think that deadlines should be ignored until the product was ready: that they were a nuisance, a hurdle in front of quality, a forced measure to get something out the door for the good of the schedule, not the customer.

Jason Fried

GoodQualityDoorThinkCustomer

If a film is a real knockout like 'Raging Bull,' it does not matter that it might not have happened like that.

William Klein

MatterBullRealFilmLikeHappened

We approached Yahoo and Jerry Yang and said that Hadoop is going to continue to be popular, and as it does, more and more of your team is going to get poached by other companies and come under pressure to leave. This way, you can control your own fate and destiny.

Peter Fenton

TeamControlDestinyFatePressure

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