Jack Williamson Quotes
The humanoids protect people so well they won't let them drive a car lest they have an accident or let a woman hold a needle lest she stab herself, ... With the Patriot Act, people are trying to overprotect us by taking our freedoms away. I'd repeal it if I could.
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I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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If a superhero knocks over a building, and there are 5,000 people in the building that we can presume are now dead, does it matter? Because they're not people we know. But if one dog we like gets run over by a car, it's the worst thing we've ever seen. I totally understand where that visceral reaction comes from. I have that same reaction.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.
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The biggest danger for any organism is to not identify that it's being threatened. I want to hope that people realize that the source of danger and risk in the Middle East is not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but the deep radical Islamic vision of forming a global caliphate.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.
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I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.
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I want to do stories that inspire people.
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I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history and how I got where I am and who I am.
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I worked in Licorice Pizza when John Lennon was killed. I had the day off, but I came in anyway because people needed a place to mourn.
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Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for producing information, knowledge and culture, in the hands of something like 600 million to a billion people around the planet.
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I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.
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If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.
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One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
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I happen to like vampires more than zombies.
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We must teach compassion and tolerance and encourage kindness, selflessness, and loving acceptance of all who are created in the image of God.
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I've been around for nine or 10 years with him. You never ever know what he's going to do, so you can expect anything. Hey, as long as we're collecting wins when he's doing it, that's all that counts.
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The humanoids protect people so well they won't let them drive a car lest they have an accident or let a woman hold a needle lest she stab herself, ... With the Patriot Act, people are trying to overprotect us by taking our freedoms away. I'd repeal it if I could.
