Poul Anderson Quotes
So much American science fiction is parochial - not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way...Poul Anderson
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
Yogi Berra -
I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
Yaya DaCosta -
We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
Maggie Hassan -
Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
Harold Washington -
What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
Hans Haacke -
Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
Ira Glass -
I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
Jackie Earle Haley -
Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
Zoe Kazan -
I'm one of those who believe the bumper sticker: If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns.
Gary Johnson -
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.
Nancy Gibbs -
I am a just man.
Fidel Castro
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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
Ralph Fiennes -
Musical theater is one of my passions.
Patrick Wilson -
So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
Vanessa Brown -
I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.
D. B. Sweeney -
You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
Dan Quayle
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
Eamon de Valera -
I draw whatever hits me.
Matthew Ashford -
I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.
Dejan Stojanovic -
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.
Nancy Banks Smith -
We are always looking ahead to anticipate what next, and our unique innovation architecture enables us to take an innovation-led approach to help our clients invent the future.
Pierre Nanterme -
So much American science fiction is parochial - not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way...
Poul Anderson