Poul Anderson Quotes
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way did not become still more complicated.
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After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
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No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
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To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.
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Designing a collection with Aeropostale was completely surreal.
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I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.
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I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the opportunity to plan their own deaths, and also plan for those who are left behind. What does that do to the grieving process?
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I'm an only child, and we're a close family.
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As we explore ways to bring price relief and bolster our country's energy independence, one significant energy source has emerged as a potential solution, hydrogen fuel cells.
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In certain states, if a woman makes $12,000 a year, and lives with her quarter-of-a million dollar boyfriend and they don't get married, as long as they don't get married, she gets maybe 20 or 30 thousand dollars in pre-tax benefits in terms of food stamps, health care and housing allowance.
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The art of storytelling is in development, not fact sheets. There are posts you have to hammer into the ground from the start just to get going, but if they don't hold up the house you build, you can change them or take them out.
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You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things.
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I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable.
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I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.
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Caste, religion, the political system, the economic system - all are helping the bonded labor owners … I believe in Gandhi’s philosophy of the last man, that is, the bonded laborer is the last man in Indian society, that we are here to liberate the last man.
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A very unclubable man.
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Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
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I love home, any home really - my mum's, and of course my own. I love eating food there and chilling in bed with a cup of tea.
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When I was very young - around the age of nine - my family used to go to a house in Somerset that my stepfather rented every summer. There was fishing, lakes and riding.
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I sat on cushioned otter-skin: My word was law from Ith to Emain, And shook at Invar Amargin The hearts of the world-troubling seamen, And drove tumult and war away.
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There are so many things that you're supposed to conform to as an actress. Keep your mouth shut. Look pretty. Be a fashionista. I'm not stylish. I don't want to become this character.
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Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.
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When I was a kid, I would sing in people's living rooms and for different little family things.
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I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way did not become still more complicated.
