James P. Hogan Quotes
On Earth they've forgotten how to make everything except money. But what good is it, if there's nothing worthwhile left to buy?
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
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I've always been a rough kid.
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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Values are more important than money.
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I truly believe diversity is beauty.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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Everything I say is true.
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I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.
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You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
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If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.
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I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
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My agenda is not to reassure anybody outside Lebanon.
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There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love; the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence.
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Much of the time I’ve spent trying to impress people has been a waste. The reality is people are impressed with all kinds of things: intelligence, power, money, charm, talent, and so on. But the ones we tend to stay in love with are, in the long run, the ones who do a decent job loving us back.
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Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
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I have this group of friends that I'll send my scripts to before I send them to a large audience.
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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
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On Earth they've forgotten how to make everything except money. But what good is it, if there's nothing worthwhile left to buy?
