"When someone disagrees with me, I do not have to immediately start revising what I just said. People don't want me to always agree with them. They can sense this is phony. They can sense I am trying to control them: I am agreeing with them to make them like me. They feel; "I don't want to exist to like you. I DON'T exist to like you.""

-- Hugh Prather

#People Quotes #Trying Quotes #Want Quotes

“A lot of films come out before they're finished.”
“All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.”
“The greatest threat to U.S. and global security is no longer a nuclear exchange between nations, but nuclear terrorism by violent extremists and nuclear proliferation to an increasing number of states.”
“Nothing is impossible in the United States.”

Source : Ève Curie (1937). “Madame Curie: a biography”
“I have never given this ring, my soul, to anyone. Azrael has never had any part of this. This is the only part of myself that is truly mine, and now it is yours.â€ â€”Jack Force”
“Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.”

Source : Eric J. Hobsbawm (1994). “Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991”
“You could have told me yourself that you found someone else, instead I heard it through the grapevine.”
“When you zap things with light to build quantum computers, you're hacking existing systems. You're hijacking the computation that's already happening in the universe, just like a hacker takes over someone else's computer.”

Source : "Life, the Universe, and Everything". WIRED Interview, www.wired.com. March 1, 2006.

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