Poul Anderson Quotes
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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I don't think the jet-setting life is really for most people.
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Over the years, so many of the barriers that prevented people from getting married, crossing lines of faith or color or ethnicity have just disappeared. Because what's important is: 'Are you making a responsible decision? Have you thought it through? Do you understand the consequences?' And I think in the world that we're in today we need more of that.
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When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
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I'm glad President Obama followed my lead and lowered the flags half-staff. It's about time!
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People usually take for granted that the way things are is the way things must be.
