Ramez Naam Quotes

There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

Ramez Naam

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I'm not a kingmaker.

Jim DeMint

GreatPeopleThinkAmericaCountry

I really didn't feel that my motion picture career was going the way I wanted it to go.

Joel Grey

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There was a period of time when they estimated the two biggest stars in Hollywood were Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse.

John Lasseter

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I like the idea of sort of playing quieter roles, which would be refreshing for a minute. It is exhausting being really loud and obnoxious.

Anna Faris

RefreshingPlayingBeingMinuteIdea

We have never seen a sport as a business, and we have this great passion for football. QPR are not a trophy asset. If we had wanted a trophy asset, there were more glamorous clubs we could have bought.

Amit Bhatia

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Whatever I do becomes controversial.

Amitabh Bachchan

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And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

Toni Cade Bambara

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Whatever the long-term legal prospects for same-sex marriage, President Obama's willingness to put the matter front and center in an election year can at least make him a candidate for inclusion in Kennedy's Profiles in Courage.

Robert Dallek

MarriageCourageLegalYearElection

Man, I used to go around and think, 'Oh my God, what must it be like to be going down the street, and someone asks you, 'What's your name?' and the reply would be, 'John Coltrane.' I couldn't imagine what that would be like.

Roscoe Mitchell

GodManThinkNameSomeoneYou

When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, declaring that all men were created equal, he owned slaves. Women couldn't vote. But, throughout history, our abolitionists, suffragettes, and civil rights leaders called on our nation, in reality, to live up to the nation's professed ideals in that Declaration.

Marvin Ammori

WomenLiveHistoryMenIndependence

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

Lou Holtz

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I watch a movie or a T.V. show or whatever; if it's good, I like to watch it more than once, and it's always fun to catch something you didn't see initially.

Judah Friedlander

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