Poul Anderson Quotes

Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.

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• Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.

  

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• Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.

  

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• I have my dad's shape. No booty.

  

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• If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

  

  Narendra Modi
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• The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.

  

  Gary Sherman
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• I really do not see why there is not a splendid field for good work on the music hall stage, and if I did not have my own theatre taking up my time, I should rather like to go into it.

  

  Lady Gregory
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• Our research is so complex that the resources of a single region of the world are no longer enough - both intellectually and economically, it must be a global effort.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
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• I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
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• I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don't know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses.

  

  Walter Kirn
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• Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These books are not concerned with style or creativity - instead they are successful because they are repetitive and follow a template that readers enjoy.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.

  

  Adam Driver
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• The bonds of trust between the United States and Israel have been frayed, but even the hostility and disrespect the Obama administration has shown has not severed those bonds.

  

  Adam Hasner
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• I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

  

  Jackson Browne
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• Just know what's inside your food.

  

  Venus Williams
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• Right now I'm on my God flow, you know what I mean? I got Job 1:21 tattooed on my chest.

  

  Ja Rule
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• The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
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• You had better love the music... because sometimes the music doesn't love you.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
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• A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that they have little quality emotion and energy left for their children, much less their husbands.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
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  • Job

• For the first time in sixty years, the priests, the old aristocracy and the people met in a common sentiment-a feeling of revenge, it is true, and not of affection ; but even that is a great thing in politics, where a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
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• It became really important to me if I was going to write 'Hummingbird's Daughter' to try to do honor to women.

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea
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• It's like if every single male artist dressed up as farmers. In every video they were on a farm. Whether it was Jason Derulo or Oasis, they're always on a tractor, they're always surrounded by sheep and always in boots. And all the songs are about enjoying farming, and this is all you've had for 10 years - you'd think you were going mad.

  

  Caitlin Moran
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• People say, 'Wow, you've achieved it all this year: two world championship wins and an Olympic gold medal.' And I think, 'Yeah, but how come I feel so unsatisfied and under pressure all over again?'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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• Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.

  

  Poul Anderson