Floyd Skloot Quotes

Science trumps magical thinking: there was a reason the Incas called their mercury mine 'la mina de los muertos,' the mine of the dead. Building a life and a community upon principles that ignore such realities is doomed to fail.

Floyd Skloot

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 6, 1947

Topics

LifeCommunityScienceBuildingDead

I've called myself an actor - I won't say I've been an actor, but I've called myself an actor - since 1989. That's when I moved to Los Angeles.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

MyselfLos AngelesSayActorBeen

I just don't like my face.

Amanda Seyfried

FaceJustLike

I know plenty of people my age that will never get married because they genuinely believe the false cultural meme that marriage has sadly become. There's only one problem. It's completely untrue.

Steven Crowder

MarriageAgePeopleBelieveProblem

I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn't make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things.

Colin Farrell

LifeSimpleManMindMeBetter

I suppose I am interested in the variety of human life - how people live. I am most interested in individuals and how they respond to challenges or to difficulties or just to each other. I am curious about people.

Claire Denis

LifeLiveI AmCuriousPeopleHuman

Internships are so instrumental, but not only do you need to get them, you need to work at them.

Brad Goreski

WorkYouNeedGetOnlyInstrumental

Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.

Antony Sher

StrugglePaintingBookEasyPlay

I'm not a writer myself, so I'm forced to try to get what's a sort of an odour or a colour or something I feel in my head from a writer, and that's a... I don't have a recipe for that process. I don't know what it is... it's different every time.

Sydney Pollack

TimeMyselfProcessFeelKnowTry

It's easy to forget that for centuries - for millennia - the 'workforce' was all of us.

Peter Diamandis

EasyForgetWorkforceUsCenturies

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Thomas Merton

LifeResponsibilityMeaningFinding

I always loved both 'Breakout' and 'Asteroids' - I thought they were really good games. There was another game called 'Tempest' that I thought was really cool, and it represented a really hard technology. It's probably one of the only colour-vector screens that was used in the computer graphics field at that time.

Nolan Bushnell

GoodTechnologyTimeCoolGameHard

I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.

Lisa Bonet

ImportantMovementHappenNeedsPart

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