Elmer Davis Quotes
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.
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I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.
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I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.
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If you imagine your friend is recommending you content on a topic they're an expert on, they can do a really good job of that. They know what you're interested in, they know your personality, they know if you have a scientific type of mind-set or not.
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Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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I go to Japan every November on vacation, and the one thing I never return home without is yuba, which is the thin skin that forms atop boiling soy milk. You skim it off and either eat it fresh or dry it.
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Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
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My wife was born in Korea, and we met in music college; she was there for vocal, and I was there for drums.
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She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.
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I still think I'm not as good as anybody else.
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In the electric age we wear all mankind as our skin. (p. 47)
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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
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Tammany Hall and slavery usually found 'The Herald' on their side.
