Aliens Quotes - Page 27

• Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens.

  Thomas Sowell

  Jobs, Taken, Mean

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 8, 2012.

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• Okay, let's talk about cartoon labels for half a second - some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It's, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it's actually a solid wine.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Dog, Wine, Thinking

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• The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

  Alan Watts

  Taught Us, Common Sense, Culture

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• I love playing an alien.

  Sigourney Weaver

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• My father was always very interested in space. I watch Star Trek and all those things, but I always had a different picture in my mind... maybe closer to Alien. I don't see it in space as much as I do see it in different planets, with each having its own strange characters.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Stars, Father, Character

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• What I love about the 'Alien' franchise is I would do all kinds of films - dramas, comedies, whatever - and every now and then I'd be in this science fiction blockbuster that would re-introduce the character and me to a lot of audiences around the world and allow me to go back and do the smaller films again, so it was really a good balance for me.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Drama, Character, Balance

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• I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?

  Olivia Wilde

  Creepy, Barbie, Looks

  "Olivia Wilde Tells Us Her Dos and Don'ts of Turning 30". www.glamour.com. August 5, 2013.

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• I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

  Philip Zimbardo

  Smart, Hero, Unusual Things

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• We are all human; therefore, nothing human can be alien to us.

  Maya Angelou

  Humans

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• At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.

  Alberto Manguel

  Confused, Book, Childhood

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• Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies. You can be moved profoundly by other vistas, by other oceans, by soaring mountain ranges, but you can never be seduced. You can even forsake the lowcountry, renounce it for other climates, but you can never completely escape the sensuous, semitropical pull of Charleston and her marshes.

  Pat Conroy

  Ocean, Mountain Ranges, Sight

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Lords of Discipline: A Novel”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and unknown to myself is due to one thing, to one single thing--I was afraid of myself, I was fleeing from myself. I was seeking Atman, I was seeking Brahman, I was determined to dismember myself and tear away its layers of husk in order to find in its unknown innermost recess the kernel at the heart of those layers, the Atman, life, the divine principle, the ultimate. But in so doing, I was losing myself.

  Hermann Hesse

  Heart, Order, Siddhartha

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• To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. ... Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Real, Home

  "Strange cats" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 1995.

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• One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Unique, Stealing Things

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• We of alien looks or words must stick together.

  C.J. Sansom

  Community, Together, Looks

  C. J. Sansom (2008). “Revelation”, p.65, Pan Macmillan

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• The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve.

  Albert Einstein

  Ideas, Free Thinkers, Seems

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.341, Princeton University Press

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• So you are a vampire." "I most certainly am not." He looked annoyed. "That's such a common phrase, such a cliche, and so unflattering. I suppose you believe in werewolves and aliens too. I blame television.

  Margaret Stohl

  Believe, Annoyed, Vampire

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• There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Wings

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• Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.

  Terence McKenna

  Life, Religious, Feelings

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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• Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cities, Healthy, London

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.44, Harper Collins

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• I'm telling you, if aliens landed on earth today and took a good hard look at why babies get born, they'd conclude that most people had children by accident, or because they drink too much on a certain night, or because birth control isn't one hundred percent, or for a thousand other reasons that really aren't very flattering.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Children, Night

  "My Sister’s Keeper". Book by Jodi Picoult, 2005.

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• In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.

  Henri Nouwen

  Solitude, Realizing, Humans

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.20, HarperCollins

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• We should remember that the Declaration of Independence is not merely a historical document. It is an explicit recognition that our rights derive not from the King of England, not from the judiciary, not from government at all, but from God. The keystone of our system of popular sovereignty is the recognition, as the Declaration acknowledges, that 'all men are created equal' and 'endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.' Religion and God are no alien to our system of government, they're integral to it.

  Mark Levin

  Kings, Men, Rights

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• Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Loss, Feelings, Quality

  Siri Hustvedt (2010). “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves”, p.6, Macmillan

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• If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Faithful, Principles, Difficult

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.119, W. W. Norton & Company

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