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'A Reply to Professor Haldane' (1946), published posthumously in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (1966)
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago.
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I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'
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I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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If you don't learn constantly, you don't grow, and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh.
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I'm gluten intolerant, so that automatically cuts carbs from my diet.
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In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time.
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Never be afraid of the moments-thus sings the voice of the everlasting.
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We have a choice, every single day that we wake up, of what we can put into the world, and I ask you to please choose love every single day.
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Devereux Forester's being ruined by his vanity is extremely good, but I wish you would not let him plunge into a 'vortex of dissipation.' I do not object to the thing, but I cannot bear the expression; it is such thorough novel slang, and so old that I daresay Adam met with it in the first novel he opened.
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Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit, which in turn has demanded increasingly stupendous suspensions of disbelief.
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I originally started redoing houses to deal with stress. I found that the hour I could go to a job site every day took my mind off the 24/7 of thinking about my clients.
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My mother has been my mentor in my life. The number one attribute was discipline. To be on time to school, never miss a day at school, and then checking out homework and making sure I was doing it correctly and signing me up for lots of activities, extra tests and classes.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world of cinema.
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I was a virgin. People find that hard to believe, but when you're raised in a church, that was just the way it is.
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'A Reply to Professor Haldane' (1946), published posthumously in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (1966)