#cal

I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#action #affirmative #affirmative action #career #changed

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#back #call #came #could #doing

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations. ↗

— David Deutsch

#complexity #contain #deepest #explanations #hierarchy

Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door. ↗

— Indra Devi

#bad #bad news #calm #come #door

Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom. ↗

— Bernadette Devlin

#basically #bottom #british #coming #doing

However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#however #means #modern #science #specifically

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying. ↗

— Anita Diament

#explaining #fiction #got #historical #historical fiction

I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think I'm callous, arrogant. I didn't like the media attention. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#always #arrogant #attention #been #callous

I don't recall your name but you sure were a sucker for a high inside curve. ↗

— Bill Dickey

#high #i #inside #name #recall

I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel. ↗

— Joan Didion

#novel #physical #physical strength #strength #sure