Nancy Kress Quotes

A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.

Nancy Kress

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 20, 1948

Topics

PositiveSimpleNegativeProblems

America has always built ourselves out of adversity. All the way back to the Great Depression.

Jim Gray

AdversityGreatDepressionAmerica

An Obama administration desperate to strike a deal is likely to strike a bad one.

John Barrasso

BadStrikeDealDesperateBad One

People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I'm sensitive to that.

Joel Osteen

PeopleSensitiveSkepticalMany

If you were a new guy at ILM, they put you on the night crew - my shift was from 7 P.M. to about 5 A.M. In my free time, I was working on an idea with my older brother, a software engineer getting his doctorate at the University of Michigan. Ultimately, it developed into Photoshop.

John Knoll

TimeBrotherNightFreeYouNew

It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.

Maurice Gibb

AloneTogetherSongYouWriteHard

Sadly, I have disappointed the surveillance capitalists myself by not yet downloading 'Pokemon Go.' But I'm addicted to my phone enough as it is, and I don't necessarily need that helping hand.

Riz Ahmed

MyselfEnoughPhoneGoHandNeed

I'm accustomed to pressure. It's what we, as players, live. If you don't want pressure, then football is not for you.

Roberto Firmino

LiveFootballPressureYouWant

The first to grasp how sensitive Israeli public opinion was on the issue of hostages and M.I.A.'s - and therefore what a powerful weapon abduction could be - was Ahmed Jibril, the leader of a faction of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Ronen Bergman

LeaderOpinionPowerfulFirstWeapon

For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.

Michael Rostovtzeff

LifeHistoryGreatPoliticalLong

On the religious Right and religious people in general have the feeling that the world is not just material, the world is not just there for us to do what we want with. That our bodies, things have an immaterial essence, a spiritual essence that God is in all of us.

Jonathan Haidt

GodSpiritualPeopleWorldFeeling

I like people to have a bit of a laugh. Life is too short to not enjoy what you're doing.

Bradley Walsh

LifePeopleLife Is Too ShortShort

Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration.

Paul Stamets

PlanetRestorationGrandHabitat

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