Elaine Sciolino Quotes

I guess the biggest surprise I got going to Iran was that the Iranians really liked me as an American.

Elaine Sciolino

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There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

Jerzy Kosinski

ActionParticipationActiveWithout

Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about.

John Desmond Bernal

WorldJudgeIndependentBecomeWell

I loathe having a fragile brain and knowing as I make any plan that I should provide for the possibility that my mind may betray me at short notice.

Andrew Solomon

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But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

Maynard James Keenan

NaturePresentYouSituationOut

'Toast of London' is a must-watch. Matt Berry's off-the-wall humour is slightly surreal and a little bit deviant. That's why I also love 'House of Fools.'

Maxine Peake

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Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

Maurice Maeterlinck

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Considering what a prolific writer Dickens was, the word 'Dickensian' could legitimately cover a vast thematic territory, explaining at least some of the variety of its applications.

Matthew Pearl

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With the rise of the push for gay rights, it is beyond wanting there to be an appreciation and respect for gay rights. Now a segment of our population is seeking to have that right trump religious freedom.

Jeffrey C. Mateer

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I am good at being shown something and counterpunching.

Tom Stoppard

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I think good campaigns generally, but I think particularly presidential campaigns, they're about the voters, and they're about the future. And I think it's hard to be a successful candidate who talks about the future who isn't hopeful, who isn't optimistic, and doesn't offer a vision, right?

Robby Mook

GoodFutureVisionThinkHardRight

My mother still has a three-step system to eating candy corn. First she eats the white tip, then the orange middle, then the yellow end. She swears each segment tastes different.

Rosecrans Baldwin

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I'm not one to speak about myself. I like to speak about the people around me.

Michael Ovitz

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