Frederik Pohl Quotes
All of them had been so tested and retested that they had acquired considerable skill in answering test questions the way the examiners wanted them answered.
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I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
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The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.
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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
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I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was the favorite to win, and he lost. I realized in that moment the pain he felt was so much greater than the pain that those who never thought they were going to win would have felt had they lost.
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I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.
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I was terrified of getting the chemo. It's not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant.
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Competition is good and has served us well.
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You'd be surprised how self-conscious a lot of women are. That's something I've witnessed firsthand.
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Atoms of Element 118 fill an outer shell with electrons, creating a special type of element called a noble gas. Noble gases are natural turning points on the table, ending one row and pointing to the next.
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To act: that is what the writer would like to be able to do, above all. To act, rather than to bear witness. To write, imagine, and dream in such a way that his words and inventions and dreams will have an impact upon reality, will change people's minds and hearts, will prepare the way for a better world.
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My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
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If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
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I'm still learning a lot as a songwriter. I try to write down and make a note of ideas that I cross paths with on a day-to-day basis, whether it be a conversation or something I hear on the radio, seeing a movie, or just thoughts in my head as I'm walking down the street.
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In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.
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After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.
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If I sleep in and don't run, I'll feel a little bit off because I didn't do what I was supposed to do. But I'm not going to beat myself up because of it. I'll just get right back on track.
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I read my sister's diary when I was 7. She was, I think, 13. It was awful to read it.
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I've always said about awards that they're meaningless until you win one, and then they're best thing in the world. The other thing about awards is that they engender respect from areas where it might never have come from without it.
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Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.
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We live in a great country. It's time again to get religion about it.
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As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening.
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Immortal amarant, a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream: With these that never fade the spirits elect Bind their resplendent locks.
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All of them had been so tested and retested that they had acquired considerable skill in answering test questions the way the examiners wanted them answered.
