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“I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights.”

Should Humans Doubt Rights Universal Human Rights Lists Declaration Declaration Of Human Rights

Author:Antonio Tabucchi

“The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.”

Humans Science Growth Worry Flower Computer Lists Sunshine Engineering Plastic Behaviour Genetic Engineering Cloning Funny Science Plastic Flowers Human Cloning

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“I am a goal setter and I set more goals everyday. I keep lists of goals in my office to stay on track.”

Goal Office Everyday Track Lists

Author:Kiana Tom

“NASA has spin-offs, and it's a huge and very impressive list, including accurate and affordable LASIK eye surgery.”

Eye Huge Including Lists Accurate Surgery Impressive Affordable Nasa Very Impressive Lasik

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I loved the idea of recording. The idea of sound-on-sound-recording captured me as a young kid, and once I realized what it was I had an epiphany. Before I was even playing the guitar, I would create these lists of how I would record things and overdub them, like Led Zeppelin song, 'I could put this guitar on this track...' and so on.”

Ideas Kids Young Song Sound Records Guitar Track Lists I Realized Captured Epiphany Zeppelins

Author:Steve Vai

“My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.”

Years Desire Three Loses Thousand Ten Lists Pounds Resolution New Year New Year's Resolutions New Years Resolution New Year New Beginning New Year New Start Happy New Year Eve Funny Happy New Year

Author:Nia Vardalos

“You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.”

Kind Artist Environment Products Lists Great Artist

Author:Eddie Vedder

“I think that when Americans go to vote, states should not list what party the candidates are affiliated with. That would require voters to actually think and get to know a candidate instead of voting for their favorite gang. 'Oh, this guy is a Republican, so he must be good.'”

Thinking Knows Should States Guy Party Republican Vote Be Good Lists Candidates Voting Voters This Guy Gang

Author:Jesse Ventura

“Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.”

Way Trying Today Losing Lists

Author:David Viscott

“Lists have always implied social order.”

Order Social Lists Social Order Implied

Author:David Viscott

“People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.”

People Feels Lists Accomplishment Sense Of Accomplishment

Author:David Viscott

“The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'”

Periods Stones Originals Lists Clay Ovens

Author:David Viscott

Ifs Wells Goal Class Lows Lists Priorities Features Popularity

Author:Arabella Weir

“For years I've kept a list of dream projects.”

Years Dream Projects Lists

Author:Michael Bolton

“I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.”

Blood Terrible Lists Surgeons

Author:Kristen Wiig

“I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.”

Kids Race Achieve Highest Lists

Author:Kate Winslet

“I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.”

Humor Funny Simple Comedy Letters Bills Dollars Lists Chains Ties Fax Dollar Bills Fax Machines

Author:Steven Wright

“There are many resistance movements in the world, like the IRA for instance. But it is only Islamic resistance movements that are put on the terrorist list. This is what I am saying.”

World Movement Lists Terrorist Resistance Instance Islamic Ira

Author:Ahmed Yassin

“My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.”

“I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked.”

People Littles Made Names Bits Money Amount Needed Little Bit Lists Shocked

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that.”

People Trying Humans Nations Rights Bills Human Rights Lists Accepted Shelter Items Bill Of Rights

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“Typically creative people are usually not clock-slaves or list-makers, so the idea of enforcing goals and deadlines can be somewhat daunting.”

People Ideas Goal Creative Slave Lists Clock Makers Creative People Deadline

Author:Kristin Armstrong

“Record labels collude with some of the radio stations, and the radio stations have their play lists, dependent upon what they call the, quote, 'hits.' What's commercially viable gets recycled, endlessly repeated, and as a result of that, the progressive music can't break in.”

Play Results Break Records Radio Lists Labels Dependent Stations Progressive Radio Stations Record Labels Recycled

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“I'm a huge Coppola fan. But more of 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Conversation.' 'The Godfather' for me is, like, number three or four on the list.”

Three Numbers Four Fans Huge Conversation Lists Apocalypse Number Three

Author:Anurag Kashyap

“For all its shortcomings, Wikipedia does have strong governance and deliberative mechanisms; anyone who has ever followed discussions on Wikipedia's mailing lists will confirm that its moderators and administrators openly discuss controversial issues on a regular basis.”

Doe Strong Issues Bases Lists Discussion Mechanism Governance Controversial Shortcomings Wikipedia Administrators Mailing Controversial Issues

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It's one-way love.”

Way Grace Lists One Way Upside Down Scandalous

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“Stupidity—The top of the list for Satanic Sins. The Cardinal Sin of Satanism. It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful. Ignorance is one thing, but our society thrives increasingly on stupidity. It depends on people going along with whatever they are told. The media promotes a cultivated stupidity as a posture that is not only acceptable but laudable. Satanists must learn to see through the tricks and cannot afford to be stupid.”

People Sin One Thing Media Stupid Ignorance Depends Painful Stupidity Lists Tricks Thrive Our Society Acceptable Posture Cardinals Satanic Satanism Satanist

Author:Anton Szandor LaVey

“Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea blue tears into the books spine, grape-colored whales spouted blood around a newspaper item (pasted in) listing arrivals to the endangered spieces list. Six hatchlings cried from shattered shells near an entry made on Easter. Cecilia had filled the pages with a profusion of colors and curlicues, candyland ladders and striped shamrocks.”

Source: The Virgin Suicides: A Novel

“With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get.”

Way Children Two Chance Havens Lists Shopping Small Child

Author:Jo Brand

“She decides to make a list of the things that make her happy. She writes 'plum-blossom' at the top of a piece of paper. Then she stares at the paper, unable to think of anything else. Eventually it begins to get dark.”

Thinking Writing Dark Pieces Paper Lists Staring Plums Plum Blossoms

Author:Neil Gaiman

“My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.”

Self Today Hours Six Lists Schedules

Book:Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”

Knows Love Mind Reality School Wealth Walks Poor Poverty Teach Knowing Rich Dying Lists Optimistic How To Love

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Make a list of all the lovers you've ever had. Warren Lasher Ed "Rubberhead" Catapano Charles Deats or Keats Alfonse Tuck it in your pocket. Leave it lying around, conspicuously. Somehow you lose it. Make "mislaid" jokes to yourself. Make another list.”

Lying Loses Lovers Jokes Lists Pockets

Book:The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore

Source: The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore

“I'm making a list I'm making a list of things I must say For politeness, And goodness and kindness and gentleness Sweetness and rightness: Hello Pardon me How are you? Excuse me Bless you May I? Thank you Goodbye If you know some that I've forgot, Please stick them in you eye!”

Ifs Knows May Eye Kindness Please Goodness Sticks Excuse Lists Goodbye Bless Sweetness Hello Gentleness Pardon Politeness Excuse Me Goodness And Kindness Pardon Me

Author:Shel Silverstein

“Well, it was most likely too late; there would not be time for me to flagellate myself for every dishonorable deed in that list, nor any chance to make good the harms I’d done. Minor harms, to be sure, in the scheme of things; but large enough to regret.”

Wells Done Enough Chance Regret Late Deeds Harm Lists Too Late Minors Schemes Dishonorable

Book:Galilee

Source: Galilee

“We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe.”

People Want Needs Stills Enough Bigs Universe Cities Mets Protect Lists Enormous Our Family Pockets

Book:Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

“There's something about sober living and sober thinking, about facing long afternoons without the numbing distraction of anesthesia that disabuses you of the belief in the externals, shows you that strength and hope come not from circumstances or the acquisition of things, but from the simple accumulation of active experience, from gritting the teeth and checking the items off the list, one by one, even if it's painful and you're afraid.”

Ifs Thinking Long Shows Belief Simple Circumstances Painful Active Lists Teeth Distraction Afternoon Sober Items Accumulation Acquisition Numbing Anesthesia Strength And Hope

Book:Drinking: A Love Story

Source: Drinking: A Love Story

“I'm just running through this list of potential nannies and wondered if we should go for a superhero this time. Do you think Wolverine would be interested? He seems to be on every other team right now.”

Ifs Thinking Should Seems Would Be Running Team Right Now Lists Superhero Nannies

Author:Mark Millar

“Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.”

Ifs Taken Valuable Lists Spells Thieves Rust Moths

Author:Douglas Coupland

“Not going back is fine. Not going back but occasionally visiting might be best. Not going back but remembering so you don’t see the same view twice. Not going back so you can turn a new page, write a new chapter, develop an entire new list. Not going back so you can stretch and grow and see yourself in a light that you never knew existed. Not going back so that you can fly. Fly.”

Writing Light Might Remember Turns Grows Views Fine Pages Lists Chapters Visiting

Author:Kris Radish

“My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.”

Feels Book Three Reading Grows Series Pops Lists Ads Relentless

Book:The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

Source: The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

“A roll and butter and a small coffee seemed the only things on the list that hadn't been specially prepared by the nastier-minded members of the Borgia family for people they had a particular grudge against, so I chose them.”

People Particular Members Prepared Lists Coffee Grudge

Book:Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories

Source: Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories

“I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.”

Humor Force Enemy Add Lists Gravity

Author:Daniel Handler

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”

Source: Stories: Collected Stories

“If you're like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I'll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you're doing.”

Ifs Knows Okay Lists Like Me Hooked

Author:Jeff Bridges

“Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.”

“A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Václav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal.”

Want Years Dream Age Able Past Certain Space Members Years Ago Cat Thirds Universal Lists Astronaut Space Shuttle

Book:The Gum Thief: A Novel

Source: The Gum Thief: A Novel

“I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy.”

Ifs Stills Forgiving Lists Grades Orange Fifth Buddy Crayon Fifth Grade

Author:Jonathan Carroll

“I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints... I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does.”

Thinking World Giving Doe Book Age Earth Reader Unique Lists Fingerprints

Author:Douglas Coupland

“The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness. Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught. But what about the benefits of living harmoniously among extremes? What if you could somehow create an expansive enough life that you could synchronize seemingly incongruous opposites into a worldview that excludes nothing?”

Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

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