"A fervently believed idea, even if wrong, dies hard."

-- Hal Hellman

#Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I think that some of the greatest muckrakers and some of the greatest investigative journalists of all time had strong feelings about civil rights. There is a role for the journalist-advocate. And as long as you play your cards on the table, I think thats a role that we should allow.”
“Menstrual blood is the only source of blood that is not traumatically induced. Yet in modern society, this is the most hidden blood, the one so rarely spoken of and almost never seen, except privately by women ...”
“When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today.”
“It's important not to base your ambition on anybody else's history, but to figure out how best to use your own particular personality and understanding of yourself to help tell other people's stories.”
“If you are for gun control, then you are not against guns, because the guns will be needed to disarm people. So itâ€™s not that you are anti-gun. Youâ€™ll need the policeâ€™s guns to take away other peopleâ€™s guns. So youâ€™re very Pro-Gun, you just believe that only the Government (which is, of course, so reliable, honest, moral and virtuousâ€¦) should be allowed to have guns. There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership in the hands of a small, political elite and their minions.”
“Nobody believes this, but I write very fast,”
“I had highfalutin ideas about being a serious actress when I was 16, 17, and first signed at Universal. I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.”

Source : "Piper Laurie White Christmas" by Edvins Beitiks, www.sfgate.com. December 17, 1998.
“My main professional interest during the 1970s has been in the dramatic change of concepts and ideas that has occurred in physics during the first three decades of the century, and that is still being elaborated in our current theories of matter. The new concepts in physics have brought about a profound change in our world view; from the mechanistic conception of Descartes and Newton to a holistic and ecological view, a view which I have found to be similar to the views of mystics of all ages and traditions.”

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