Brian Aldiss Quotes
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Whenever I go to L.A., the make-up artist or hairdresser will end up having a conversation about how fat they think they are, and I really just can't take it seriously at all.
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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Anti-frackers are disingenuous. They bow to the religion of environmentalism.
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When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.
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Something like 'Rust and Bone' would be a dream. Very pared down. 'Orphan Black' is such a challenge. I just need something that isn't as full-on intense as that.
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The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
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The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
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Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that.
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I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'
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Under Superintendent Johnson's leadership, our police department is on a path to earn the respect of every community in the City of Chicago.
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The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
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It's not enough to trade a prison of powerlessness for the pain of an empty stomach. But history shows that governments of the people and by the people and for the people more powerful in delivering prosperity.
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Nothing can replace the excitement, the magic and yes the glamour of a Ziegfeld show. To see the great showman sitting in the second row busily writing his telegrams is a thrill no actress can forget.
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Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights disintegrate before her protection disintegrates.
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Human nature is governed by general self-interest and affected by genetic predisposition, which implies that there are likely to be limits to our moral sensitivities.
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Cynicism about America’s current state of affairs is ultimately a form of surrender.
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Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
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You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one fucking idiot.
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All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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I'm a model, and I happen to model for curvy things, but at the end of the day, I'm still in front of a camera just like anyone else.
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A privileging of individual rights over group goods can lead to serious problems, as we’ve seen with the antivaccination movement.
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The only sort of tasks worth being set were impossible ones.