I grew up part of the MTV generation. I saw Biggie Smalls and Jay-Z on TV and I thought: ‘Wow, look at these powerful black people.’ I wanted that. Ashley Walters Read Quote
When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed to be under apartheid – I arrived there in 1991 – but here a black person had more say and had more influence over his white government than an average Kenyan had over the Moi government. Binyavanga Wainaina Read Quote
I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets. Katarina Johnson-Thompson Read Quote
Sometimes I use a bungee, one of those bungee cords that offer resistance training. I find that useful. Like, I’ll go out and hit a backhand or a forehand with resistance. Because when you get rid of the resistance, you’ve recruited more muscle fibers, and it definitely helps with speed. Kevin Anderson Read Quote
Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character’s mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he’s going to do next. Karen Traviss Read Quote
It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day’s end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may. H. P. Lovecraft Read Quote
I laughed when Steven Spielberg said that cloning extinct animals was inevitable. But I’m not laughing anymore, at least about mammoths. This is going to happen. It’s just a matter of working out the details. Hendrik Poinar Read Quote
If you’re trying to get to profitability by lowering costs as a startup, then you are in a very precarious and difficult position. Chamath Palihapitiya Read Quote
