Poul Anderson Quotes
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I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don't feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I'm not worried about my body because I'm living in it. It doesn't become an object.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
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It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
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I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.
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America has much greatness left in her.
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I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.
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AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
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I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.
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Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.
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Nellie Kim, an Olympic champion from the former Soviet Union, got a 10 right after me in '76, but nobody talks about that.
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Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process.
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She couldn't think of anyone else who remotely resembled him. He was complicated, almost contradictory in so many ways, yet simple, a strangely erotic combination. On the surface he was a country boy, home from war, and he probably saw himself in those terms. Yet there was so much more to him. Perhaps it was the poetry that made him different, or perhaps it was the values his father had instilled in him, growing up. Either way, he seemed to savor life more fully than others appeared to, and that was what had first attracted her to him.
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Programs like 'Jeopardy' and 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' are ridiculous. They're the stupidest shows in history. They're making us dumber. They don't give us information, they give us facts, factoids. You don't learn who Napoleon was and how he was motivated. You learn what year he was born, and when he died. That's useless.
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Clients usually come to me when they want to update the look of an existing room.
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If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?
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Everard sighed, switched off his conscience, and began lying.
