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 learned how quickly I could go from having never met someone to having the world think I'm dating them.
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I could be winning the decathlon in high school, which I've won twice, yet, if my dad is in the audience, 'Oh look! It's Anthony Quinn.' And I'm like, 'Hello? Kid just got a gold medal. Hello? I'm over here.'
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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
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You can do it! You believe! Feel it in your gizzard. You are a creature of flight. Fly, my children. Fly!
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I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.
