Frederik Pohl Quotes
I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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Barbara Castle was a hero to millions of British women. She inspired a new generation of women to become active in Labour politics, including, of course Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman.
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I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
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I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.
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I believe when I leave this earth, because I love the Lord, I am going straight to Heaven.
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It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
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Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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Like every girl, I felt amazing pressure to look like the popular girls, but no one told me the popular girls were all air brushed in magazines.
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I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
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The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.
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That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.
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Q: Why is America the land of the overrated child and the underrated adult? Q: How can children grow up in a world in which adults idolize youthfulness? Q: What happens when the ad makers taker over all the popular myths and poetry? (p. 141)
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I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.
