Michael Crichton Quotes - Page 3

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• I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

  Michael Crichton

  Movie, Inspiring, World

  "State of Fear". Book by Michael Crichton, 2004.

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• The people in Hollywood are fabulously stupid.

  Michael Crichton

  Stupid, People, Hollywood

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• The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.

  Michael Crichton

  Expectations, Permit, Grammar

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• Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.

  Michael Crichton

  Territory, Way, Evolution

  Michael Crichton (1997). “Michael Crichton's Jurassic World”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• When I get sick, I go to my doctor like everyone else. A doctor has powerful tools that may help me. Or those tools may hurt me, make me worse. I have to decide. It's my life. It's my responsibility.

  Michael Crichton

  Hurt, Powerful, Responsibility

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.95, Vintage

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• Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.

  Michael Crichton

  Mean, Thinking, Cyberspace

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The Lost World”, Knopf

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• I believe my life has a value, and i don't want to waste it thinking about clothing. I don't want to think about what i will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion?

  Michael Crichton

  Fashion, Morning, Believe

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• ...scientific power is like inherited wealth: attained without discipline. You read what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young...there is no mastery, old scientists are ignored. There is no humility before nature...Its a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.

  Michael Crichton

  Humility, Discipline, People

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• Environmentalism has already killed somewhere between 10-30 million people since the 1970s.

  Michael Crichton

  People, Politics, Millions

  Michael Crichton's Remarks to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• Even if you don't believe in God, you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and shapes your sense of the world. Such a belief is religious.

  Michael Crichton

  Religious, Believe, Giving

  Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.

  Michael Crichton

  Intellectual, Academia, Virtue

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• Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It's bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Doe, Looks

  Michael Crichton (2001). “Airframe”, p.336, Ballantine Books

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• The doctor is not a miracle worker who can magically save us but, rather, an expert adviser who can assist us in our own recovery.

  Michael Crichton

  Recovery, Doctors, Miracle

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.95, Vintage

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• The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.

  Michael Crichton

  Planets, Survived

  Michael Crichton (1997). “Michael Crichton's Jurassic World”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• It takes enormous effort to avoid all theories and just see.

  Michael Crichton

  Effort, Theory, Enormous

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.509, Vintage

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• The system didn't screw you. The system revealed you.

  Michael Crichton

  Screw You, Screws

  Michael Crichton (1996). “Michael Crichton: Two Complete Novels”, Wings

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• In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

  Michael Crichton

  Errors, Stories, Amusement

  "Why Speculate" by Michael Crichton, April 26, 2002.

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• And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there. . . . And at the end of your life, your whole existence has the same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.

  Michael Crichton

  Running, Quality, Errands

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Jurassic Park: A Novel”, p.171, Ballantine Books

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• Sometimes I think man needs to feel a special position within nature, and this leads him to believe that he is either specially hated by other animals or specially cherished. Instead of the truth, which is that he's just another animal on the plain. A smart one, but just another animal.

  Michael Crichton

  Smart, Believe, Men

  "Travels (Sharks)". Book by Michael Crichton, 1988.

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• The minute we look, we cease being afraid.

  Michael Crichton

  Looks, Minutes, Being Afraid

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.219, Vintage

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• The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Issues, Debate

  "Mediasaurus: the Decline of Conventional Media". Speech at the National Press Club, Washington D.C., April 07, 1993.

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• The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive shock. But the natural world is not so malleable. On the contrary, it will demand that you adapt to it - and if you don't, you die.

  Michael Crichton

  Nature, Giving, Expectations

  Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• The experience of climbing Kilimanjaro affected me so powerfully that, for a long time afterward, if I caught myself saying, "I'm not a person who likes to do that activity, eat that food, listen to that music," I would automatically go out and do what I imagined I didn't like. Generally I found I was wrong about myself - I liked what I thought I wouldn't like. And even if I didn't like the particular experience, I learned I liked having new experiences.

  Michael Crichton

  Climbing, New Experiences, Long

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• Each person bears a fear which is special to him. One man fears a close space and another man fears drowning; each laughs at the other and calls him stupid. Thus fear is only a preference, to be counted the same as the preference for one woman or another, or mutton for pig, or cabbage for onion.

  Michael Crichton

  Fear, Stupid, Men

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The 13th Warrior.: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922.”

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• Exercise invigorates the body and sharpens the mind.

  Michael Crichton

  Exercise, Mind, Body

  Michael Crichton (1999). “Timeline”

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