Poul Anderson Quotes
Life isn’t a fairy tale; the knight who kills the dragon doesn’t necessarily get the princess. So what? Who’d want to live in a cosmos less rich and various than the real one?
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
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I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.
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What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
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I love trying new restaurants.
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Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.
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My main incentive now is to be so successful that I can get a private jet and sit with the pilot. I got upgraded to first class the other week, but even there I was still scared. I could be massaged for the whole flight and still think I'm going to die.
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The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
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I'm lucky because I had blonde hair for a while for this TV show I was doing – they had me dye my hair blonde – and every audition I was going out for was bleach blonde. The mean girl, the pretty girlfriend, and the dumb cheerleader.
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I have more time to work; I just do. Because once your kids are up and running, that frees you up a good 20, 30, hours a week.
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We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.
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The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.
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I think 'Shoe Dog' by Phil Knight is the best memoir I've ever read by a business person.
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Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.
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Life isn’t a fairy tale; the knight who kills the dragon doesn’t necessarily get the princess. So what? Who’d want to live in a cosmos less rich and various than the real one?
