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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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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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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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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If I had criteria, it would just be that I want to play active people who can solve problems, not people who have things thrust in their lap and need somebody to solve their problems for them.
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For the robust, an error is information.
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If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.
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It would be great if teenagers could make movies. It's sad how some writers think they can write about stuff they don't understand.
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I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don't exacerbate the problem.
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That's wrong," she declared. "Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it? But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down.
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You can't give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such thing.
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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.
