China Mieville Quotes
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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I love anything to do with history.
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If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.
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Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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It's not about putting a speaker in a chair or putting a TV in a bed. That's not how technology and the home intersect. For me, it's about sensors, about the home knowing where you are.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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I decided I was going to be an artist who wrote my own songs, and turned down the publishing deal. That meant that the first few years here were really tough financially. I didn't know if I was going to have gas to get home sometimes or could put gas in the car.
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I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.
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In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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I don't get to cook in my own restaurant.
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A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.
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It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the other. Look at the number of blue people - 'Avatar,' I'm looking at you. And it is now easier to find people of color in science-fiction literature and media, but the issues of representation are still really, really troubling.
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I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.
