“Sometimes women scare the hell out of me.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Disclosure
“Power is neither male or female.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Disclosure
“Friendships are nice. So is competence.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Disclosure
“All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Disclosure
“They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Disclosure
“The system didn't screw you. The system revealed you.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Disclosure
“Personally, I don't deal much in theory. I have to deal with the facts. And on the basis of facts, I don't see much difference in the behavior of men and women.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Disclosure
“To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Disclosure
“Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Disclosure
“He did not want an affair with his boss. He did not even want a one-night stand. Because what always happened was that people found out, gossip at the water cooler, meaningful looks in the hallway. And sooner or later the spouses found out. It always happened. Slammed doors, divorce lawyers, child custody.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Disclosure
“Sitting in the deserted law offices, Sanders had the feeling that he was all alone in the world, with nobody but Fernandez and the encoraching darkness. Things were happening quickly; this person he had never met before today was fast becoming a kind of lifeline for him.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Disclosure
“Sanders had fought the B-school mentality that she exemplified. After watching these graduates come and go, Sanders had finally concluded that there was a fundamental flaw in their education. They had been trained to believe that they were equipped to manage anything. But there was no such thing as general managerial skill and tools.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Disclosure
“Power is neither male nor female. Katharine Graham”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Disclosure
“It’s not clear what happened. It’s not clear who did what to whom. That’s the largest category of complaints we see. So far, society’s tended to focus on the problems of the victim, not the problems of the accused. But the accused has problems, too. A harassment claim is a weapon, Bob, and there are no good defenses against it. Anybody can use the weapon—and lots of good people have. It’s going to continue for a while, I think.” Garvin”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Disclosure
“We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas. Those environments are changing.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Disclosure
“The episode related here is based on a true story.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Disclosure
“On the contrary: the advantage of a role-reversal story is that it may enable us to examine aspects concealed by traditional responses and conventional rhetoric.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Disclosure
“it is important to recognize that the behavior of the two antagonists mirrors each other, like a Rorschach inkblot. The value of a Rorschach test lies in what it tells us about ourselves. It”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Disclosure
“You have to realize, all these decisions are about power. Sexual harassment is about power, and so is the company’s resistance to dealing with it.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Disclosure
Michael Crichton
Born place: in Chicago, Illinois, The United States
Born date October 23, 1942
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“I know he would die if you died, Luce”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Torment
“If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.”
― Evelyn Waugh, quote from Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, quote from Vanity Fair
“Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, distinctly heard the voice of Jesus telling him to kill women, and he was locked up for life. George W. Bush says that God told him to invade Iraq (a pity God didn't vouchsafe him a revelation that there were no weapons of mass destruction).”
― Richard Dawkins, quote from The God Delusion
“Heart, we will forget him!
You and I, to-night!
You may forget the warmth he gave,
I will forget the light.
When you have done, pray tell me,
That I my thoughts may dim;
Haste! lest while you’re lagging,
I may remember him!”
― Emily Dickinson, quote from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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