Frederik Pohl Quotes

A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.

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• A common mistake people make regarding dining rooms is to buy a matching set of table and chairs, which can be monotonous. I like to mix guest chairs in one style and head chairs in another for a more interesting, dynamic look.

  

  Candice Olson
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• You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.

  

  Cameron Diaz
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• I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.

  

  Cameron Diaz
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• The Southern borders of Bavaria are being protected by Hungary.

  

  Viktor Orban
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• What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

  

  Laura Linney
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• I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

  

  Nat King Cole
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• Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.

  

  Zubin Mehta
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• Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.

  

  Carla Gugino
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• Betty White is a riot. She is a good time! That is the bottom line: Betty White is a good time. She is really an incredible woman. She is so kind. She doesn't have one mean bone in her body, and she is the funniest woman in the room always. And you'll never hear one complaint from her.

  

  Odette Annable
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• I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• I don't put a ton of time into my on-stage style, largely because I'm dumb about clothes. But I have friends who are very smart about clothes, and they teach me things. For the show, I'm mainly concerned with feeling comfortable, being able to jump around and get wild.

  

  K. Flay
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• It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

  

  G. H. Hardy
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• I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
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• Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.

  

  Adam Grant
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• I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.

  

  K. A. Applegate
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• If I had it to do over, I might have finished school first, then devoted all my time to StumbleUpon instead of dividing my time between the two. In the end, however, it was probably good to take the time I did.

  

  Garrett Camp
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• And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document all this busy part of the flight.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
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• My dear Hardman, It was pleasant... I am sorry that your Oriental venture has not been going as well as you expected. But, then, I think that the days when a man could expect to make his fortune in the East are dead and gone. Indeed, the time seems to have come for the reverse of the old process to apply, and for the East to dominate the West.

  

  Anthony Burgess
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• The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.

  

  William Hazlitt
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• i will follow it, though i know so well now the deep wounds i might find. for as long as i believe that i am walking the true road, if i am slain, then i die in the knowledge that for a brief time, at least, i was part of somethin bigger. this road has perils and i will surely die on it,but, i am not afraid to die.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
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• I absolutely believe that President Obama was born in the United States. I don't buy into the claims that he wasn't.

  

  Ken Cuccinelli
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• I'm a great fan of Bloomingdale's, and I'm a very loyal alumni of Parsons. I think what they do, what they've done, is amazing. They've educated some of the best American designers.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
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• A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.

  

  Frederik Pohl
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