Frederik Pohl Quotes
'You could rule the nation-and yet you don’t seem to go after that power.'The mayor frowned. 'Power, Mrs. O’Hare? You mean the chance to make laws and compel others to do what you want them to? Why, good heavens, Mrs. O’Hare, who in his right mind would want that?'
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
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I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.
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Health is never going to go out of fashion.
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I'm very happy with the choices I've been making and the people I've been working with. I hope I can continue along this path.
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I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
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I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I'm learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.
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Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child.
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When you eat healthfully, your body gravitates relatively rapidly toward a better weight.
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If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it. Because it'll never look good. Any hesitation in the fitting room and just walk away.
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Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.
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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
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Growing up, I loved the imagery I saw from America as it celebrated being the land of the free and home of the brave.
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'You could rule the nation-and yet you don’t seem to go after that power.'The mayor frowned. 'Power, Mrs. O’Hare? You mean the chance to make laws and compel others to do what you want them to? Why, good heavens, Mrs. O’Hare, who in his right mind would want that?'
