China Mieville Quotes
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
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The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
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I have faith in my imperfections!
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I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.
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If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.
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The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.
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When I was growing up, my white friends would call me: 'Hey, Chief!' Even when I go to work now, people call me 'Chief.'
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Honestly, are we ever going to get over 'California Girls' by Katy Perry? I know it's old, but that song - I love that song!
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Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here.
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I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.
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The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.
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Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
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For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.
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It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now - girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.
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If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.
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He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar,The only thing that keeps me wishing on a wishing star.He's the song in the car I keep singing, don't know why I do.
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Say your prayers. And I'll say mine. Because I really think it helps.
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A view of the unseemly actions of drunken men is the most effectual dissuasive from wine.
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I don’t give advice. I can’t tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.
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That's the most important part of all the music I produce: making sure the artist is bringing themselves out in the music.
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I'm not an angry kind of person. What I am is a principled person.
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That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it.
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Truly modern citizens are both charismatic and can only respond to other people with charisma. To survive, people need to become self-branding charisma robots. Yet, ironically, society mocks and punishes people who aspire to that state.
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I don't like allegory.
