“You know, artists are influenced by other artists. We're all deeply influenced by what's around us; we don't make anything cold. Sometimes we think that we do. But within that, the most important part is that even though we're influenced, what are the levels of invention that we carry forth even as we've been influenced by something that's come before?” ThinkingKnowsImportantSometimesArtistLevelsColdInvention Author:Carrie Mae Weems
“We need a more complex understanding of writers working under authoritarian or repressive regimes. Something to replace this simpleminded, Cold War-ish equation in which the dissident in exile is seen as a bold figure, and those who choose to work with restrictions on their freedom are considered patsies for repressive governments. Let's not forget that most writers in history have lived under nondemocratic regimes: Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and Goethe didn't actually enjoy constitutionally guaranteed rights to freedom of speech.” NeedsWarGovernmentEnjoyUnderstandingForgetRightsFiguresColdSpeechComplexesRegimesFreedom Of SpeechCold WarEquationsExileRestrictionDissidents Author:Pankaj Mishra
“In the past things were either in your head (subjective, imaginary, fantasy) or else they were part of the outside world - cold, hard, concrete materialistic reality. If you want to look at it in terms of poetry, there was surrealism and objectivism. Now there's the veil of the virtual in between. The old opposition between inner and outer doesn't quite capture it, especially as it contains elements of both. It's real but not concrete.” IfsWorldWantLooksRealHardRealityPastTermFantasyColdElementsOppositionCaptureConcreteImaginaryVeilsSubjectiveMaterialisticOutside WorldSurrealismObjectivism Author:Elaine Equi
“In the modern era, it isn't enough to write, you must also be the Writer, with a capital 'W,' and play your part as the protagonist in the cautionary narrative in which you will fail or triumph, be in or out, hot or cold, ride the wheel of fortune.” WritingEnoughPlayFailingModernColdHotFortuneErasTriumphNarrativeWheelsProtagonistsModern EraWheel Of Fortune Author:Tony Kushner
“We had a world dominated by the Soviet Union on the one hand, and the Americans on the other hand. They called it the Cold War. But it wasn't cold. I am someone who comes from the third world. In the third world, the cold war wasn't cold. Millions had been killed. It was a proxy war.” WorldWarHandsMillionsColdThirdsUnionsSovietCold WarSoviet UnionThird WorldProxy Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali
“We've lost half the summer sea ice in the Arctic. We've wiped out an enormous percentage of the world's coral reefs. We see huge changes in the planet's hydrology already, the cycles of drought and flood both amped up because warm air holds more water vapor than cold. These things are happening with a one-degree increase and going to two degrees won't be twice as bad, the increase in damage won't be linear, it most certainly will be exponential. So it was precisely the wrong moment to elect Trump.” WorldTwoMomentsLostWaterHalfAirSeaPlanetsHugeColdTrumpDegreesSummerHappeningsIncreaseWarmEnormousIceDamageCyclesFloodPercentagesLinearDroughtArcticReefsVaporCoral ReefsHuge Changes Author:Bill McKibben
“In my opinion, those politicians are making decisions based on calculations related to polling numbers and strategic political agendas. But if they are to talk about refugees in a human way - far from how this would affect their careers or individual comforts - and if they, for a second, look at a mother, sitting on a road somewhere, holding her children, shivering with cold, and crying because they are hungry, I'm sure there is a part of their humanity that would shiver.” ChildrenPoliticalMotherHumanityIndividualDecisionOpinionCryColdPoliticianComfortHungryRefugeeShiver Author:Yasmine Elmasri
“I really love a lot of Japanese music, like Ryuichi Sakamoto and this guy I got really into, Tatsuro Yamashita. When I was a little younger, I thought synthesizers meant Kraftwerk, cold, robotic, weird, Autobahn. But these guys are having a lot of fun on these things. Sometimes. Sometimes it's very somber. They could go either way.” SometimesGuyFunColdSomber Author:Mac DeMarco
“We desperately need in this country a discussion of American policy toward Russia. We can't keep saying an untruth, that this new Cold War is solely the fault of Putin. We need to rethink our policy toward Russia.” WarCountryPolicyColdDiscussionCold WarUntruth Author:Stephen F. Cohen
“This system, built on free markets, free trade and free peoples and American protection, that's what got us from the end of World War II to the extraordinary events of the end of the Cold War and a system that was one of prosperity and peace for a lot of people, including for the United States.” PeopleWorldWarColdTradeExtraordinaryProsperityProtectionWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War ICold WarFree MarketFree Trade Author:Condoleezza Rice
“I never wanted to be "a writer"; I only ever aspired to be an science fiction writer. They'll tear that badge out of my cold dead hands.” TearsColdScience Fiction Author:Alastair Reynolds
“The garments of the future will be made from the kinds of materials that harvest energy from the sun and wind, and can collect data from your body - the steps you take, the moves you make - and adjust your body temperature when you start to feel cold or warm.” KindMovingEnergyColdHarvest Author:Miroslava Duma
“I do think that when we're looking at Putin's actions, we really need to look further into what his point is. Because I think there is a misconception that this is kind of reigniting the Cold War and Putin's a bully. And he's just, you know, sort of lashing out at Ukraine when actually I think that this goes much deeper to that.” ThinkingKindWarActionColdCold WarBullyMisconception Author:Clarissa Ward
“One of Donald Trump's criticisms of President Barack Obama and of Hillary Clinton was that they seemed reluctant to use the words radical Islam. It was not just semantics. Trump said it's important to name the enemy idea and then attack it. Consider the Cold War. The U.S. and its allies waged a kind of propaganda war against the communist idea using radio broadcasts and other tools. Trump has said he'd do the same against Islamic extremism.” KindImportantWarPresidentEnemyColdCriticismClintonIslamRadicalBarackPropagandaIslamicCommunistCold WarExtremismPresident Barack Obama Author:Tom Gjelten
“President Trump say that relations between the United States and Russia may be at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War.” WarPresidentColdRelationCold WarLowest Author:Judy Woodruff
“We are seeking to avoid a new Cold War, avoid a new arms race, and, therefore, we continue to work for a more constructive relationship with Russia, including political dialogue with Russia.” WarPoliticalColdDialogueCold War Author:Jens Stoltenberg
“Mathematics is realm altogether, one that is cold, hard, objective, necessary, clear and thus utterly non-human. Nonetheless, it is enormously useful as a means, to "turn the soul around from becoming to being."” MeanSoulColdMathematics Author:David Roochnik
“I think Russia is dangerous, not a superpower. I know what the president is trying to say. I worked for him for five years, not just two.He doesn't want us to overreact. He doesn't want to go back to the Cold War and some superpower competition. But my own view, and I think General Mattis stated something similar today, is that Russia is a challenge for the United States. It is a threat to some of our allies.” ThinkingTryingWarTodayPresidentChallengesDangerousColdCompetitionThreatCold WarWant USuperpower Author:Michael McFaul
“If we're at the lowest point in history, that means we're in a new Cold War.” MeanWarColdCold WarLowest Author:Dmitry Peskov
“I think the economy in the US has surprised. The old adage is that if America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold. If the US economy does well, the global economy will do well.” ThinkingWorldEconomyColdGlobal Economy Author:Martin Gilbert
“My suspicion is that those who seem oblivious to suffering, whether it is nearby or in remote corners, are for the most part unaware, perhaps blinded by doctrine and ideology. For them, the answer is to develop a critical attitude toward articles of faith, secular or religious; to encourage their capacity to question, to explore, to view the world from the standpoint of others. And direct exposure is never very far away, wherever we live - perhaps the homeless person huddling in the cold or asking for a few pennies for food, or all too many more.” WorldSufferingReligiousAttitudeColdDirectIdeologyFar AwaySuspicionSecularHomelessOblivious Author:Noam Chomsky
“Today, the danger of some sort of a nuclear catastrophe is greater than it was during the Cold War, and most people are blissfully unaware of this danger.” PeopleWarTodayDangerColdCold WarCatastrophe Author:Noam Chomsky
“For over two centuries, each generation of Americans before us confronted and solved problems. They embraced opportunities and Americans have never had it easy. This was a nation founded by declaring independence for the most powerful empire in the world. This was a nation that faced a divisive and bloody civil war, two great world wars, a long cold war.” WorldLongWarProblemOpportunityEasyPowerfulColdIndependenceWar Of The WorldsCivil WarMost PowerfulBloodyCold War Author:Marco Rubio
“You know, I am not a particular Kennedy apologist or an awed fan - I was 12 when he was murdered - but I have discussed Kennedy with historians. For his incredibly short tenure, he was a very important president. Many put him in the second tier, below the big three and surrounded by Truman and Eisenhower. Kennedy moved our soul. Changed our thinking about service and governance. And won big in the greatest nuclear crisis of the Cold War.” ThinkingImportantWarSoulPresidentChangedColdCrisisMovedHistorianCold WarTenureTruman Author:Gene Weingarten
“The Cold War has been over for a long time. I'm not interested in having battles that, frankly, started before I was born.” LongWarColdBattleNot InterestedCold War Author:Barack Obama
“Talking with Ken Shamrock was almost a one-way conversation. I knew Ken was a tough guy, one of the toughest in the world at one time and still tough as nails. I had heard he had a tough background, but there are two times in that interview when I teared up. I'm "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, and I didn't cry, but I teared up. Ken saw me, and he almost started tearing up, too. I'd never experienced anything like that. To hear some of the things that he went through, my jaw was on the floor.” WorldGuyCryColdToughTough GuyStone Cold Author:Stone Cold Steve Austin
“I can't swim. I can float. But nothing could prepare me for that, to be honest. I mean, cold is cold and this was quite extreme. I actually treasure that experience, because it was challenging enough for me to discover new strength in me. Especially the discipline and the ability to concentrate and focus so much on one thing that I can overcome some obstacles and boundaries.” MeanEnoughChallengesAbilityFocusHonestColdDisciplineOvercomingObstaclesBoundariesBeing HonestSwim Author:Alicja Bachleda-Curus
“The metaphor I routinely use is polar bears in the Sahara desert. You take creatures adapted to the cold and put them in the heat, the very traits that allow them to survive in one environment will conspire against them in the other. We are polar bears in the Sahara with one important distinction: we are smarter than the average bear. Once we identify the nature of the problem, we can think our way out of it. But it begins by acknowledging you didn't fail because you couldn't succeed. Because you didn't even know what the scope of the problem was. It's not your fault.” ThinkingImportantProblemEnvironmentFailingColdSucceedMetaphorTraits Author:David Katz
“In terms of the nature of the continuation of the Cold War, which has gone on so long between Cuba and the United States, I applaud the president for aggressively trying to end it and I hope we will have not only full diplomatic relations, but that the trade embargo will end.” TryingLongWarPresidentTermColdRelationTradeCold WarDiplomatic Author:Bernie Sanders
“Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.” PeopleWarRememberCulturePolicyMastersColdMetsReactionsCommunistThinkerSovietForeign PolicyRecallsCold WarShockedInterventionStrategicElbowsGenevaGorbachev Author:Russell Baker
“This was the first time we had two ex-Soviet Cosmonauts in Houston. A lot of us, including me, viewed it with some skepticism, because I grew up during the Cold War, so I had been hit with all this propaganda all along that their stuff wasn't that good, it wasn't that safe and we were so much better. What I found out later was that their space stuff was very good and good enough that I was certainly comfortable flying on their equipment. So, it was kind of a revelation of sorts as the years went by and I think it underscores the importance right now of international cooperation.” ThinkingKindWarEnoughColdFirst TimeImportanceVery GoodFlyingPropagandaRevelationsGood EnoughCooperationSkepticismCold War Author:Leroy Chiao
“I'll never retire. They'll have to take my computer out of my cold, dead hands. I'm addicted to writing. I feel physically unwell if I'm not doing it.” WritingColdComputerRetiring Author:Russell Hoban
“Every album I've done pretty much has been not in a pleasant, quote-unquote, environment - it's freezing cold, or it was somebody's house with not-that-great equipment. It's always something that spurs on to get the job done.” DoneHouseEnvironmentCold Author:Jack White
“What we went to World War II for, at least in my mind, was not getting taken care of. It was supposed to be a brave new world, but we were getting back into the old ruts, and we were in a cold war with Russia.” WorldMindWarCareTakenColdBraveWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War ICold WarBrave New World Author:Al Feldstein
“Whenever I'm asked about independent cinema, I think of what Fidel Castro said during the Cold War about the league of non-aligned nations. He said that really, there were only two non-aligned nations: the U.S. and the USSR. The rest of us have to be aligned somewhere. I say similarly, in a way, Paramount, Sony, and Warner Bros. are the only true independents, because they're the only ones who can do whatever they want and have distribution for their films built in.” ThinkingWarFilmColdIndependentLeagueCold WarCastroUssr Author:Alexander Payne
“Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.” ThinkingWarActorsHeavenColdIntellectualOppositesStrategySakeInnocentComplexityThinkerOutsidersCold WarNaiveStrategicChimpanzeesWar StrategyMovie ActorsFooling Around Author:Russell Baker
“It shouldn't surprise any American to know that Russia uses its money and its intelligence services to spread disinformation, use subterfuge and deception and manipulation, to try to divide political opinion within the United States, within any Western European country, or among NATO countries. That's one of the techniques that Russia has used for decades, during the Cold War and during the Putin era.” TryingWarCountryPoliticalOpinionColdSurpriseWesternSpreadDeceptionManipulationCold WarNato Author:Tom Cotton
“I do think, from the other side, that George W. ush was somewhat of an innocent in his thinking about what Ronald Reagan did during the Cold War and by bringing democracy to Eastern Europe. I think he believed that he could do the same thing by bringing democracy - or Midland, Texas, really - to the Middle East. I truly think he felt it was possible. "I want to do for the Middle East what Reagan did for the Soviet Union."” ThinkingWarDemocracyColdInnocentSovietCold WarSoviet UnionEastern Author:Josh Brolin
“I think that idealism is always there in America. It's a spirit that's been subverted lately, and sold down the river to the contractors, what with the privatizing of all aspects of the government. It's so cold and cynical - all dollars and cents and parcel it up and sell it out and downgrade it and outsource it. They don't consider what it does to people. I think the spirit of this country is finally coming back, and hopefully it will triumph.” PeopleThinkingCountrySpiritColdHopefullyCynicalIdealismParcelContractor Author:Tim Matheson
“Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.” StillsVoiceWaterMinutesDogColdShouldersShakesRelaxWhere You AreShakingSpineCold Water Book:High Tide in Tucson Source: High Tide in Tucson
“I was really into what is called "minimal synth" - music made strictly on analog synths, and also cold wave, basically a more synth-based version of European post-punk, at that point. So, I decided my own show Minimal Wave was a good way to combine the minimal electronics aspect with the "wave," where guitars come into play.” ColdWave Author:Veronica Vasicka
“I like cold. I really like to go to cold towns. I love gray. I love winter.” ColdWinter Author:Francisco Costa
“The only thing worse than working acting in an airplane is working in a prison - they're cold, and the clanging and the noise, it just gets under your skin after a week.” ActingWeekColdSkinsPrisonAirplane Author:Tobin Bell
“There are practical things which contribute to a joke's funniness. People will find a joke funnier if they are sitting closer together, if it's cold, if they've paid and if they are told it's funny beforehand.” PeopleTogetherColdJokes Author:Ben Miller
“Surfing and music have always been two completely separate things in my life, and a lot of people, especially in the UK, don't really get surfing very much. They think it's the Californian dream. They're like, "Oh, so you're a surfer and you're this and that," and it's like, I go surfing because I like the outdoors. In England it's freezing cold, and it's usually dark and raining and it's the middle of winter, and you do it because it's invigorating. It's like going on a walk in some remote place on the planet. It's really - it's not very glamorous.” PeopleThinkingDreamDarkColdRainWinterSurfingGlamorous Author:Ben Howard
“I don't think that everyone should become a mathematician, but I do believe that many students don't give mathematics a real chance. I did poorly in math for a couple of years in middle school; I was just not interested in thinking about it. I can see that without being excited mathematics can look pointless and cold. The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers.” ThinkingGivingBelieveRealSchoolChanceStudentsColdCoupleMathematicsPatientExcitedMathNot InterestedMathematicianPointlessMiddle School Author:Maryam Mirzakhani
“These strengths, and our civilization in general, have reached an apogee with the end of the apocalyptic threats of the Cold War and the end - or at least waning - of less successful, and ultimately less "just," political and economic systems. At the turn of the 21st century we appear to be entering our greatest century, a golden age. The challenge that we face is similar to that of the Classic Maya civilization: we have set in motion a "runaway train" of success.” WarAgePoliticalChallengesSuccessfulEconomicColdTrainThreatClassicCold War21st CenturyApocalypticRunaway Author:Arthur Demarest
“I have a lot of films that I haven't gotten made, and that continues to trouble me. But someday, some way or another, I think I will. It's all about timing. There's a moment when you're hot and studios will make your next film, and then there's a moment when you're really cold, and they couldn't care less what you want to do next. That's when you have to recede and make lower-budgeted films.” ThinkingMomentsCareFilmTroubleColdHotSomedayTiming Author:Richard Linklater
“The first noticeable thing to me about falling in love for the first time is how physical it is. But I've had it a couple times, so it's not just the first time, which is actually encouraging. It's just you feel like you're being ripped in half and it hurts in the best way. And it's like this dropping pole that also floats and it burns and it's cold. It's like just all every contradictory feeling at once imploding.” FeelingsFallHurtLike YouColdCoupleFirst TimeFalling In LoveIt HurtsContradictory Author:Kristen Stewart
“I think, a general anxiety, after the end of the Cold War, to find a new basis for affirming American nationhood. And perhaps another, in plainer terms, is the lure of the approaching Abraham Lincoln bicentennial has been made a resurgence in interest in Lincoln.” ThinkingWarTermInterestColdAnxietyCold WarAffirming Author:Allen C. Guelzo