Frederik Pohl Quotes
It was a nasty day in late December, just before the holidays. The weather was cold, wet, and miserable-well, I said it was London, didn’t I?
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To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.
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My father had a lot of allergies, and he just didn't like the cold of Chicago, and his father - his parents had broken up when he was young, and his father had lived in Pasadena for a while, and he kind of fell in love with Southern California.
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He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.
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What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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I love music and I love musicians and when I hear something that's great, I always say it's like you go to a movie and you can't wait to tell your friends about it.
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Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a nasty chemical soup in our brains that makes it hard to pull out of the anxious depressive spiral.
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I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.
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My parents landed in Calgary in December 1974, straight from Nairobi. They were immigrants, like many people coming to build a better life. My mom was five months pregnant with me when they landed.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.
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With experience in boxing, you learn how to be a scientific boxer and how to fight easy.
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Never let anybody get you down. Never give in to people who say nasty things on the Internet. Work to represent women in the best way possible because, even though respect and equality for women has progressed over time, it's still not in the place that it should be.
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I see people having fits because their coffee is too hot or their baked potato is too cold, or some random something is imperfect and somebody can be blamed for it. These people can fly off the handle and nobody says, 'Too much beef will do that to a person.' If it's a vegan: a clear case of alfalfa sprout poisoning.
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My favorite days were when I had a cold and could stay home from school and draw all day long.
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I was imagining a long life of being a stone cold loser. Then I got a job, which was really nice, then I got a great agent, a great manager, which was really nice. I was doing a lot of set ups, and, you know, I got to start working in L.A.
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The perfect antidote to dark, cold and creepy is light, warm and cozy.
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In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War.
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I can't stand having cold air blowing in my ears, so when it's cold at my house, or if I am outside, I am going to have my ears covered up.
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There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.
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A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there's nothing better.
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Sometimes the fantasy writers set their novels in an ancient Earth, sometimes a parallel Earth, or, quite often, they offered no explanation at all as to the temporal and geographic location.
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My party would not have allowed the Taleban to become such a huge force that they would need to sign a peace treaty.
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Things definitely got out of perspective.
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It was a nasty day in late December, just before the holidays. The weather was cold, wet, and miserable-well, I said it was London, didn’t I?
