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.Frederik Pohl
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
Ian Mcewan -
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.
Zach Woods -
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
Zoltan Kodaly -
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
Victor Borge -
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.
Owain Yeoman -
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.
Wayne Allard
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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.
Dana Goodyear -
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.
Langhorne Slim -
Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
Jack Ma -
America preaches integration and practices segregation.
Malcolm X -
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.
E. L. Doctorow -
I'm not a one-issue person.
Barbara Bush
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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.
Randy Schekman -
In the days when I was the big hero, the money wasn't much. Nobody made anything on television in those days.
Edd Byrnes -
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.
Dana Rohrabacher -
Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.
Yusuf Hamied -
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.
Laura Linney -
Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists.
Nikola Tesla
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I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).
Gary Lucas -
I take the responsibility of playing another ethnicity very, very seriously, and I promise myself and those people that I will represent them with as much dignity and integrity as I can muster.
Cliff Curtis -
If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.
Dorothy Gilman -
I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
Rakul Preet Singh -
I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.
Frederik Pohl