Philip Pullman Quotes
Lyra and her dæmon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.
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Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.
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It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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I'm not religious, so theres no church on Sunday.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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Something funny certainly happens when palladium and platinum come into contact with hydrogen gas; it's one of the great mysteries still waiting to be solved on the periodic table. But it's quite a leap from 'something funny' to cold fusion.
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Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.
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I'm very lazy when it comes to making the original sound. I don't go through amplifiers and different compressors and signal parts. I just grab something, whether its an old guitar or a children's toy that happens to be lying around, and record it straight into the computer.
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Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.
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I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things.
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.
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Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.
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I tend to thrive on being misquoted. It's the only way I sound good.
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I started out with machine code and assembly language.
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Eventually, the bad boy image affects fans' willingness to show up.
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Language usage always has a political context.
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I'm a bit of a clothes hoarder, admittedly.
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Lyra and her dæmon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.
