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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When they start talking about suspending me and hurting what we're trying to do here as a basketball team, then I don't have (a) choice but to abide by it.
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I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.
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Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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Our bad memories and our bad experiences are what make us who we are and what make us grow and allow us to learn, if we choose to see the lessons in those experiences.
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I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.
