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.Frederik Pohl
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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.
J. J. Watt -
I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
Manuel Puig -
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.
Vernor Vinge -
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.
Pat Summerall -
'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'!
Randy West
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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.
Ian Mckellen -
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.
Karin Slaughter -
My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
Randy Pausch -
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.
Yoshihiko Noda -
As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
Jack Vance -
One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
Gabrielle Roy
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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.
Candace Bushnell -
Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.
Fabrice Muamba -
I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
Malcolm McDowell -
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.
Owen Hart -
I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.
Walter Alston -
People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
Edmund Hillary
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The more feedback you give to people, the better it is, as long as the feedback is objective and not critical.
Brian Tracy -
I should say, I don't write about myself or my life. So for me, in fiction, it's always been about what I can dream up, that feels far away from me.
Jennifer Egan -
Hugging is not my shtick.
Alexis Stewart -
Therefore, when we arrive in a place and talk to new people about a new image, it is very hard for them to visualize it. That's where the drawings are very important, because at least we can show a projection of what we believe it will look like.
Christo -
I'm glad many Jews attend Knick games.
Amar'e Stoudemire -
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.
Frederik Pohl