James Nicoll Quotes
It would let me protect the Earth from asteroids. In fact, for a small fee I would protect the Earth on a monthly basis, locating rocks that could be steered into the Earth and then not doing it if the cheque didn't bounce.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.
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I go on a good many adventure-type trips. Whenever I go on one, it's always potentially going to be the setting for one of my books. I pay more attention to certain aspects than some other people might. Sometimes I use them, sometimes I don't. Most of the books I write are based on experiences I've had to some extent.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.
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In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them together into The Others.
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My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy. Our initial resources may be few, but our spirits are high, receptive, and excited, and that seems to me to be the most important thing right now.
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I love my job so much, and not everyone can say that and I recognize how lucky that is.
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My parents are my world.
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Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.
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Barbra Streisand has accomplished so much, and Dustin Hoffman as well. They are down to earth and approachable. I admire that.
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Life is a force in its own right. It is a new element. And it has altered the Earth. It covers Earth like a skin.
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There's such a thing as too much point on a pencil.
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It would let me protect the Earth from asteroids. In fact, for a small fee I would protect the Earth on a monthly basis, locating rocks that could be steered into the Earth and then not doing it if the cheque didn't bounce.
