Lenya Name Quotes

#1. We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.

Richard Dawkins

#2. Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

P. J. O'Rourke

#3. I was never into smart college boy music.

Gene Ween

#4. No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.

Toni Morrison

#5. In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.

Gary Hamel

#6. I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.

Hakeem Olajuwon

#7. Hitting the first molecules of the upper atmosphere created friction that merely warmed the rod. The lower it fell, the more the heat built, until the entire length of the rod glowed red then yellow, and, finally, a brilliant white.

Clive Cussler

#8. I just like to enjoy life and push myself. Of course, there is method to my madness. When you are entering into a new industry, for example, it helps to do something to get your name on the front pages.

Richard Branson

#9. A Jew, crossing the street, bumped into an anti-Semite. "Swine!" bellowed the paskudnyak. "Goldberg," said the Jew, bowing.

Leo Rosten