quotes about Aliens
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The duty of universities is toward their nation, for which they must prepare leaders in all fields and these must be necessarily ethnically native. For it is intolerable that a nation educate for itself alien leaders in its universities.
-- A. C. CuzaSource : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.
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We found the bathrooms, which were labeled 'Aliens' and 'Femaliens.' 'Finally,' I said to J.Lo. 'Here's a bathroom you're allowed to use.
-- Adam RexSource : Adam Rex (2013). “The True Meaning of Smekday”, p.221, A&C Black
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
-- Al Yankovic -
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The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve.
-- Albert Einstein -
The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.
-- Alex Winter -
I don't know if I'd go with an alien to space. I would have to feel the alien's vibe. I'm a vibe person.
-- Alicia Keys -
Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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Intruder on level one. All aliens, please proceed to level one.
-- Anna Lee -
He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enjoy others' successes, and such a person should never be entrusted with public affairs.
-- Anton Chekhov -
Diane Cluck is a virtuosic talent with an emotionality that feels at once ancient and alien. Her mastery of her voice as an ecstatic instrument is so compelling.
-- Antony Hegarty -
If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.
-- Aretha FranklinSource : FaceBook post by Aretha Franklin from Aug 30, 2011
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There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector
-- Augustine BirrellSource : Augustine Birrell (1922). “The collected essays & addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 ...”
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The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.
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Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.
-- Chris WareSource : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. May 2, 2001.
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Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.
-- Christopher Paolini -
Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city.
-- Christos TsiolkasSource : Christos Tsiolkas (2014). “Barracuda”, p.24, Atlantic Books Ltd
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Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.
-- David Duchovny -
So dance music is now pop music. So now, as a dance producer, what do I have to do? So I'm starting to do alien music, because pop is not pop anymore; we need to go alien to be independent.
-- David GuettaSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I always felt that if we ever encountered an alien species, they wouldn't look like us or even be humanoid, like 'E.T.'
-- David S. Goyer -
I think if we ever encountered aliens, even communicating with them would be really, really difficult.
-- David S. Goyer -
To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!
-- Emile M. Cioran -
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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding INbreeding.... No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
-- Ezra Pound -
Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesnt feel familiar any more.
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I may be uninspiring, but I'll be damned if I'm alien.
-- George V -
Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.
-- Glen CookSource : Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.50, Macmillan
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It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated.
-- Grigori PerelmanSource : "Manifold Destiny". www.newyorker.com. August 28, 2006.
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I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.
-- Henri Matisse -
In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.
-- Henri Nouwen -
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I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.
-- Hermann Hesse -
Stop scapegoating immigrants[Stop using] outrageous phrases like 'illegal aliens.'
-- Howard Dean -
Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.
-- Howard Gardner -
Well," he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. "Here we are again.
-- Iain Banks -
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
-- Iris Chang -
I've never actually seen a Star Trek, but I have seen an Alien movie.
-- Izabella Scorupco -
The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.
-- J. Edgar HooverSource : The Elks Magazine, August 1956.
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'Alien' is one of my all-time favorite horror films - that has a great monster.
-- Jackie Earle Haley -
What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?
-- James Cameron -
How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak?
-- Jay Leno -
I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.
-- Jeanne Moreau -
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The universe is so big, there's so many worlds, there must be one of them or more, something that's alive.
-- Jeff Goldblum -
If you have something floating in your drink, then you know you're ready. Seriously, what's in my drink? Aliens. Still gonna drink it.
-- Jenna Marbles -
I don't think there have been many alien movies where the actors have actually seen the aliens.
-- Joel KinnamanSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.
-- John Cowper PowysSource : "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys, p. 209, 1929.
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Antarctica is a very alien environment, and you can't survive here more than minutes if you're not equipped properly and doing the right thing all the time.
-- Jon Krakauer -
Don't get me wrong-I'm very thankful for all the aliens I've met and loved.
-- Jonathan Frakes -
We have met the Alien and it is us.
-- Judith MerrilSource : Tesseract Books, Judith Merril (1988). “Tesseracts”
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We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
-- Kate MillettSource : Kate Millett (2000). “Flying”, p.507, University of Illinois Press
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Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.
-- Katharine Fullerton GerouldSource : Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”
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This means that any aliens would also be affected by Adam’s sin, but because they are not Adam’s descendants, they can’t have salvation.
-- Ken HamSource : "We’ll find a new earth within 20 years" by Ken Ham, answersingenesis.org. July 20, 2014.
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Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan "magnanimity."
-- Kenny Smith -
I really enjoyed working on the 2009 film, 'Aliens in the Attic,' because it was shot in New Zealand and I got to visit there for the first time.
-- Kevin Nealon -
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I loved Alien, and I loved Carrie, and I loved The Exorcist - those were big movies for me. They were just brilliantly done, and unusual, and they all took horror to some new place.
-- Lawrence Kasdan -
Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.
-- Learned Hand -
There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language; an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.
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Now some alien force seems to have come and captured the Dodgers. I don't know what happened to my Dodgers.
-- Leigh Steinberg -
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Of course I believe in aliens. I think it's very egocentric to think that there's nothing else with intelligence in the whole universe.
-- Lizzie BrochereSource : "Talking About Aliens with Lizzie Brocheré". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. October 16, 2012.
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I just got my work visa to shoot 'American Horror Story,' and my official status is 'alien with extraordinary abilities.'
-- Lizzie BrochereSource : "Talking About Aliens with Lizzie Brocheré". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. October 16, 2012.
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It'd be interesting to see a film from an alien perspective. Maybe we're the weird ones.
-- Lizzie BrochereSource : "Talking About Aliens with Lizzie Brocheré". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. October 16, 2012.
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The invasion of illegal aliens is threatening the health of many Americans.
-- Lou DobbsSource : "Lou Dobbs Tonight", edition.cnn.com. April 14, 2005.
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I shop online because I don't like to try things on in front of an alien mirror.
-- Marina Warner -
We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we have to submit.
-- Mark KingwellSource : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.222, Rowman & Littlefield
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We are all human; therefore, nothing human can be alien to us.
-- Maya Angelou -
The Patriot Act is the most egregious piece of legislation to ever leave Congress since the Alien and Sedition Acts, John Ashcroft and every member of Congress who voted for it should be indicted.
-- Michael Badnarik -
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And I, as I lived, in an alien landWill die a slave and an orphan.
-- Mikhail Lermontov -
Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
I'd like - inviting aliens and have them observe what we do because so much of what we do that we take for granted will just be weird or extraordinary or just plain dumb when observed by an alien from another civilization.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
Grab something off the shelf that's on the spaceship-an ashtray, it doesn't matter what. Because I can tell you, if they flew here from another galaxy, no matter what you've pulled off the shelf, it'll be unlike anything we have on Earth.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
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You see people literally in a different galaxy who are paying extraordinarily low rates of tax.
-- Nick CleggSource : "Nick Clegg calls for introduction of 'tycoon tax'". www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2012.
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I feel... sexier, I think, with short hair. I feel like an alien!
-- Pamela Anderson -
We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.
-- Paul Auster -
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To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously.
-- Paul Davies -
Your eyes in which I travel Have given to signs along the roads A meaning alien to the earth.
-- Paul EluardSource : Paul Eluard (1988). “Selected Poems”, London : Calder ; New York : Riverrun Press
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I don't like alien films where you don't get to see the aliens.
-- Peter Berg -
How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?
-- Phyllis Schlafly -
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Ay-firmative,' Eve said, and tried for a smile. 'Sorry. An Aliens reference always makes me feel better at times like this. Exept I'm not sure I'm the one who lives through the movie.
-- Rachel Caine -
Doing 'Prometheus' was what you imagine being an actor is like when you're five. In a spacesuit, on another planet, getting killed by an alien. It was a real treat; it felt like being a part of movie history.
-- Rafe Spall -
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 -
Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.
-- Rebecca Harding Davis -
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If we ever talk to aliens, their civilisation will be far more advanced than ours (because of distances involved). They won't be religious!
-- Richard Dawkins -
America: Twenty million illegal aliens can't be wrong!
-- Richard Jeni -
Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.
-- Richard PerleSource : David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.64, Random House
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I always wanted to make aliens that looked like '60s aliens.
-- Rick Baker -
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It doesn't matter how much faith you have or don't have [in aliens]. I just don't buy the idea that we're alone. There's got to be some form of life out there.
-- Ridley ScottSource : Source: www.esquire.com
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I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.
-- Ridley Scott -
In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.
-- Rudolf Arnheim -
There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are still the illegal aliens of the literary world.
-- Sandra Cisneros -
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My eyes are so big that, weirdly, I feel like an alien if my eyelashes don't match their intensity. I like to curl my lashes to the point where they're sticking straight up and then put on a ton of mascara!
-- Sarah HylandSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.
-- Simon Conway Morris -
For every person that says I'm the new Audrey Hepburn, someone else says that I look like an alien.
-- Sophie Ellis Bextor -
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It's hilarious, because my guitar has what's known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the whammy bar is probably the most alien thing on my guitar that could possibly relate to a classical guitar.
-- Steve Vai -
I felt like an alien. I always felt like I never belonged to any group that I wanted to belong to.
-- Steven Spielberg -
Sometimes an alien would stand with a moose, not because of solidarity, but because of accidentally doing it.
-- Tao Lin -
Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.I am human: nothing human is alien to me.
-- Terence -