Ducampus Quotes & Sayings

You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever. — Tom Stoppard

I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler. — Wilford Brimley

We have tried to substitute mass for purpose. We have tried to regain military potency of defense by making it gigantic, unwieldy, complex. It never works. — Peter Drucker

And if you do see any pirates, I don't want you to pick up any rough manners from them. Do you understand? — Alexander McCall Smith

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs. — Charlie Hunnam

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them. — Henry De Montherlant

No science and no analysis of the future consequences of various actions taken today can in itself tell us what to do. We need, in addition, to factor in what kind of future we value, and to what extent we care at all about the future compared to more immediate concerns here and now. The later aspect is usually modeled and economics by the so-called discount rate, which has played a prominent role in discussions of climate change on a decadal and centennial time scale, but hardly at all in the context of longer perspectives or the various radical technologies[.] We are less used to thinking about ethical issues on long time scales, so our intuitions trying to fail us and lead to paradoxes. These issues need to be resolved, because dodging the bullet would in my opinion be unacceptably irresponsible. — Olle Haggstrom

Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on. — Evan Dando

If you want to have a child in order to have a beautiful, permanent experience, just get a tattoo of a dolphin riding a unicorn over a manatee, It will always be with you, stay exactly the way you made it, and bring you and the world joy without ever crashing your car or getting a stupid tattoo of its own. — Sarah Bennett

I think we're all pretty odd. — Michael Tippett