Frederik Pohl Quotes
Increase of population was always good news to us. More people, more sales. Decrease of IQ was always good news to us. Less brains, more sales.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!
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You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.
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Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.
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I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
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Nobody really knows for sure who the Blue Blazer is, but like I said in my interview, there's a little bit of the Blue Blazer in each and every one of us.
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We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq.
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This is what my calling is now. I'm here to try to help our party.
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Passion means suffering and compassion means suffering together. Suffering produces perseverance and perseverance produces character and character produces hope. And that lifts people up, knowing they're not alone.
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To the Gods we ne'er can renderPraise for every good they grant;Let us, with devotion tender,Minister to grief and want.Quenched be hate and wrath forever,Pardoned be our mortal foe- May our tears upbraid him never,No repentance bring him low!
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I've realised I can be happy.
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Increase of population was always good news to us. More people, more sales. Decrease of IQ was always good news to us. Less brains, more sales.
