Poul Anderson Quotes
What I want is to commune with the land. In company I couldn’t admit that. It’d sound too pompous, as though I were from Greenpeace or the People’s Republic of Berkeley.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.
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I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'
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America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
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I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.
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I don't think you can beat your audience over the head with hard-hitting cartoons day after day after day.
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Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.
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People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain status by asserting dominance over others. In hedonic societies, you gain status by drawing attention to yourself. Open source is a hedonic culture.
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No woman wants to have fat ankles.
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I try to hit all the places Guy Fieri visits in every city I go to. It's, like, something a 60-year-old would do.
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Others have said it before me. If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu. And so it is important that we have women in the United States Senate - strong women, women who are there to help advance an agenda that is important to women.
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What I want is to commune with the land. In company I couldn’t admit that. It’d sound too pompous, as though I were from Greenpeace or the People’s Republic of Berkeley.
