Frederik Pohl Quotes

Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad.

Frederik Pohl

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• People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Time
  • Know

• A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Want
  • Talk
  • Little Girls

• The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Free
  • Free Will

• Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Writing
  • Independent
  • Speaking

• I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Man
  • Respect
  • Colors

• I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Always
  • More
  • Push

• I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Good
  • Great
  • Sacrifice

• I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Children
  • Eyes
  • Star

• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Talk
  • Matters

• All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one day to this earth with power and glory, and raise the dead from their graves. All shall come forth at His bidding. Those who would not move when they heard the church-going bell, shall obey the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Men
  • Power

• I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Live
  • Surrounded
  • Rural

• What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • American
  • Today

• I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Friend
  • Singing
  • Red

• In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Long
  • Why

• Action expresses priorities.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Action
  • Priorities

• I bought an island in 1987. It's in one of the lakes in Canada. I went around it in my boat and went to the real estate office and bought it. It's the best $65,000 I've ever spent. My family camp on it and we have great times there.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Great
  • Real
  • Family

• We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Live
  • Beautiful
  • Ranch

• I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • American
  • Literature
  • Doing

• Now my way of doing it is I always get disappointed, but there's always a level of high quality.

  

  Andrea Martin
  • High
  • Quality

• I don't want to collect any paychecks as a cheerleader on the sideline.

  

  John Matuszak

• Hope is good. Without it, well, you do the math. But hope has to be like a prayer. Putting it out there to something more powerful than yourself.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Powerful

• Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met a lonely girl in Central Park and achieved with her a sweet and natural relationship, as they say in books. I too once met a girl in Central Park, but it is not much to remember. What I remember is the time John Wayne killed three men with a carbine as he was falling to the dusty street in Stagecoach, and the time the kitten found Orson Welles in the doorway in The Third Man.

  

  Walker Evans
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• Historically, companies haven't hesitated to end their relationships with professional athletes amid scandals.

  

  Mary Pilon
  • Professional

• Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad.

  

  Frederik Pohl
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Sad