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I think whenever you love something or somebody it means that you have to extend yourself, you have ...
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I do think that all of us think in poems.
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some p...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is every...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're l...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go ba...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

The Rider

A boy told me
if he roller-skated fast enough
his loneliness c...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cy...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson sin...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore.
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

You have a very good sense of endings. These are excellent. You're a very good writer.
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

I've always been amazed by the depth of people's responses in Pittsburgh. People in Pittsburgh seem ...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

Kindness

Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
f...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

I am looking for the human who admits his flaws
Who shocks the adversary
By being kinder n...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

Anyone who says, “Here’s my address,
write me a poem,” deserves something in reply.
...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,
or a buttonhole, not because it did anything...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Several Islamic banks are keen on opening branches in our country.
ALWI SHIHAB The Libyan president is ready to come to Indonesia and I have been asked to orally extend the arrang...
ALWI SHIHAB But overall you can say they are doing a good job.
ALWI SHIHAB The first 10 days we were cursed for being sluggish. If the government satisfies half the people, th...
ALWI SHIHAB Any country in the first two weeks, they are always criticized.
ALWI SHIHAB We are still waiting for the green light from the US government about when exactly the Indonesian me...
ALWI SHIHAB We still have two months before the special session is held, and that means we still have much time....
ALWI SHIHAB They need to buy clothes and their daily needs,
ALWI SHIHAB I am quite confident that their conscience will surface and their rational thinking will surface for...
ALWI SHIHAB could very well lead to the early solution of security issues once deemed intractable.
ALWI SHIHAB Focus on the small things life already has offered you, else you may turn your boundless blessings t...
SHIHAB KAZI FATE - Father of All The Events
SHIHAB KAZI You are unaware of its dark side, though the bright side of evidence of all the false excuses may ma...
SHIHAB KAZI Someone who helps rising ones faith and helps living in this world peaceful, is worth meeting again ...
SHIHAB KAZI To portray Jesus as a terrorist is extremely offensive to Muslims everywhere. Yeah, there's somethin...
HUSSAIN SHIHAB I have no idea how to describe my feelings in words because I'm extremely angry right now.
HUSSAIN SHIHAB I think it's extremely offensive.
HUSSAIN SHIHAB

Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of ...
BILL NYE

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
BILL NYE

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
BILL NYE

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
BILL NYE

The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
BILL NYE

Everybody who's a physician, who makes vaccines, who wants to find the cure for cancer. Everybod...
BILL NYE

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding e...
BILL NYE

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.
BILL NYE

NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration...
BILL NYE

Science rules!
BILL NYE

I used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don...
BILL NYE

When one shows up in jeans and a T-shirt, I strongly feel that the audience reacts in a very differe...
BILL NYE

If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of lau...
BILL NYE

Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers abou...
BILL NYE

If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll ...
BILL NYE

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.
BILL NYE

Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of ext...
BILL NYE

If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent ...
BILL NYE

Evolution is a theory, and it's a theory that you can test. We've tested evolution in many w...
BILL NYE

Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious env...
BILL NYE

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
BILL NYE

As a kid at the World's Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over ...
BILL NYE

Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
BILL NYE

I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can ev...
BILL NYE

But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellec...
BILL NYE

You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is ...
BILL NYE

Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.
BILL NYE

I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000...
BILL NYE

Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.
BILL NYE

When Rush Limbaugh says I'm not a scientist, I'm charmed - I smirk.
BILL NYE

If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilizati...
BILL NYE

I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I...
BILL NYE

There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and e...
BILL NYE The exterior of the building is so remarkable and so unique, with its Normandy inspiration. I mean, ...
BOB NYE It's really kind of tragic that the work of the state tuberculosis commission and the doctors and th...
BOB NYE The bottom line is it's going to cost a heck of a lot of money to restore these buildings. Could the...
BOB NYE You look at this stuff and you kind of feel like you're in 'the presence,' you know?
BOB NYE

I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I sti...
BILL NYE

When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seein...
BILL NYE

Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk
BILL NYE

Our world is driven by our remarkable ability to carefully measure and divide units of time. In a re...
BILL NYE

My dad was fascinated with sundials. He photographed hundreds of them and wrote a book about them. H...
BILL NYE Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who se...
JOSEPH NYE

One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.
BILL NYE

I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve ...
BILL NYE

There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Ea...
BILL NYE

I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing. Soon after, I got the idea o...
BILL NYE

I change my socks often, because I had bad bouts of athlete's foot fungus infections as a kid. I...
BILL NYE

We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. T...
BILL NYE

I worked at comedy clubs - if I can use the term 'work' - for several years. I middled at on...
BILL NYE

Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real...
BILL NYE

What makes the United States great, the reason people wanted to live in the United States, move here...
BILL NYE Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.
BILL NYE

My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a b...
BILL NYE

Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
BILL NYE It ain’t how hard you are when you’re standing over top of someone that really matters. It’s h...
CEDRIC NYE All around him the branches of the trees had frozen solid, reaching out white fingers of glass that ...
ALEX NYE

To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ...
BILL NYE It's really kind of tragic that the work of the state tuberculosis commission and the doctors and th...
BOB NYE She watched as the dancing lights of madness swirled and flickered in his eyes like the fires of hel...
CEDRIC NYE

He's not going to get re-elected, right...so he can just go for it!
BILL NYE

We can't send living things to another planet. That might screw it up,
BILL NYE

There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other i...
BILL NYE It's survival of the hang-in-there's, or the made-the-cuts, or the just good-enoughs.
BILL NYE

You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go ...
BILL NYE

It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens tha...
BILL NYE As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power's always ...
JOSEPH NYE We live in a world of diverse cultures, and we know very little about social engineering and how to ...
JOSEPH NYE When she had died, his anchor was gone and the world had burned from his untethered insanity.
CEDRIC NYE

When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seein...
BILL NYE

The process of testing claims is called science. Now, If you have a claim that can't be tested thats...
BILL NYE It's going to destroy something I don't think is that broken.
GREG NYE Matt's coming in, but you really don't want to have to lean on a freshman. It's very different than ...
GREG NYE If we can get into the top 100, being a snowbound team, we're good. If we get a couple key players a...
GREG NYE

You're dressed in a tuxedo, you wear a bow tie. A bow tie with a tuxedo is more formal than a st...
BILL NYE Fiona fixed a slice of bread to the toasting fork and held it out to the flames. So began the ritual...
ALEX NYE Here's your first lesson in Zompoc 101, kid. The easiest way to kill a zombie is to kill it before i...
CEDRIC NYE I'm a man born to blood and pain, and peace would be a killing blow for me.
CEDRIC NYE I once fed a dog-fight operator to the dogs he had abused for so long, and do you want to know somet...
CEDRIC NYE The nurse snorted, and said. “All men are pigs.”
“Not all men.” Jango said. “Some of...
CEDRIC NYE I promise not to hurt you, unless you try to take my shit. Then I'll twist your head off and hide it...
CEDRIC NYE I have to get stronger, harder, and faster. The only way to get hard enough to walk the Apocalypse R...
CEDRIC NYE You take all of our pain, you are the spine. You are the blood soaked rag that holds closed the woun...
CEDRIC NYE Sometimes you have to do something ugly so that something beautiful can grow.
CEDRIC NYE When it's my time, and the reaper calls my name, there will be no stink of fear on me, and my only w...
CEDRIC NYE

To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people’s trash.
BILL NYE I still think of myself as an actor,
LOUIS NYE The government really needs to focus on recruiting people for their first job and first opportunity....
JOSEPH NYE We appear to be turning to a conservative cycle in the major countries. President Bush's administrat...
JOSEPH NYE The resistance to globalization has a new quality today. You have populist leaders in developing cou...
JOSEPH NYE In recent years, both China and India have adopted foreign policies that have increased their attrac...
JOSEPH NYE She has enormously improved the Wilson School, ... I've said to my successor, you've got to look ove...
JOSEPH NYE They're nice ideals, appropriate especially in this setting celebrating Woodrow Wilson, but they're ...
JOSEPH NYE She did a good job of explaining what has been a veiled policy, ... She has a vision of democracy in...
JOSEPH NYE getting people to sit in the back office and connect dots has not been their strong suit. Now they k...
JOSEPH NYE I think most Americans still hope for a peaceful and beneficial future with China. As (former) Presi...
JOSEPH NYE

The(re is no) End
BILL NYE

If you’re a creationist reading this, and you want to remark something like, “Well, that’s the...
BILL NYE I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. ...
NAOMI WATTS

The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what i...
NAOMI WOLF

In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sne...
NAOMI WOLF

We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Wa...
NAOMI WOLF

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by ...
NAOMI WOLF

From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for wom...
NAOMI WOLF

It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, an...
NAOMI WOLF

After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks l...
NAOMI WOLF

For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to...
NAOMI WOLF

What we should notice is that studies show that fathers' presence in their children's lives ...
NAOMI WOLF

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and ...
NAOMI WOLF

The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and...
NAOMI WOLF

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual....
NAOMI WOLF

In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and m...
NAOMI WOLF

Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing u...
NAOMI WOLF

The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu...
NAOMI WOLF

What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated bet...
NAOMI WOLF

Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves fu...
NAOMI WOLF

It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening dem...
NAOMI WOLF

Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the ...
NAOMI WOLF

In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, w...
NAOMI WOLF In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as ...
NAOMI WEISSTEIN Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of the...
NAOMI WEISSTEIN There's so much focus on celebrity these days; we're in the Kardashian era, and it's sli...
NAOMI WATTS Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and ...
NAOMI WATTS Oh, I'm definitely a wild child.
NAOMI WATTS Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so ma...
NAOMI WATTS It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer...
NAOMI WATTS It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I tol...
NAOMI WATTS There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, ...
NAOMI WATTS Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to ref...
NAOMI WATTS There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to def...
NAOMI WATTS If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women,...
NAOMI WATTS Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.
NAOMI WATTS Maybe in the workplace I have more courage than other areas in my life.
NAOMI WATTS Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieve...
NAOMI WATTS I hate diets. Restriction makes me feel rebellious. I find that I look my best when I feel my best, ...
NAOMI WATTS I wish I'd started having kids sooner so I could have had a few more.
NAOMI WATTS I think it's good to explore it. I don't feel bad about that... I mean, I think everyone has...
NAOMI WATTS There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do you...
NAOMI WATTS As you get older, you overthink and can talk yourself out of anything. It's good to be a bit rec...
NAOMI WATTS There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna ...
NAOMI WATTS I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not...
NAOMI WATTS I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.
NAOMI WATTS You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.
NAOMI WATTS My parents are so amazing; they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise abou...
NAOMI SCOTT I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.
NAOMI SCOTT I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't ...
NAOMI SCOTT I'm my own person. You can't generalise about people.
NAOMI SCOTT There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails.
NAOMI SCOTT I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, ...
NAOMI SCOTT No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
NAOMI SCOTT I want to pursue music in the future, but I'm taking it a step at a time and making sure I'm...
NAOMI SCOTT I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't ...
NAOMI SCOTT I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they'r...
NAOMI SCOTT I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, ...
NAOMI SCOTT I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, ...
NAOMI SCOTT All of us, although we may have a label attached to us, that's not who we are.
NAOMI SCOTT There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.
NAOMI SCOTT Within a few weeks of coming back from filming 'Lemonade Mouth,' I got these scripts, and &#...
NAOMI SCOTT I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't ...
NAOMI SCOTT

I don't take vacations.
NAOMI JUDD

I'm a darned good listener.
NAOMI JUDD

Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it's at the core of all our problems.
NAOMI JUDD

I'm a registered, vetted gun owner, but that's because I live way out in the country, like w...
NAOMI JUDD

I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have...
NAOMI JUDD

I've had women tell me that when their daughters see them taking care of themselves, and being d...
NAOMI JUDD

I'm a communicator.
NAOMI JUDD

I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body...

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