Frederik Pohl Quotes
I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.
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In the days when I was the big hero, the money wasn't much. Nobody made anything on television in those days.
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If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.
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Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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It takes a long time to understand nothing.
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I was like a clock that had exploded- my springs were hanging out, my hands were cockeyed, and my numbers were falling off.
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We are still keeping, as much as we can to the one million commitment that we made, hoping that at a certain point in time, the headwinds represented by the strength of the yen will be a little bit less strong.
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Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another.
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The government and the opposition need to think about their people, if they actually went out and saw the conditions in which their people are living, it might actually mean that they would pause and think again about the importance of peace.
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I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.
