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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We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.
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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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I like a well-roasted rotisserie chicken and eggs cooked various ways, like sunny-side up or scrambled. It's comfort food for me.
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My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck.
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I went to grad school in San Francisco, and then left for New York City with my eye on Broadway. I had saved $5000, which seemed like a lot of money in my mind... until I realized it was going to take $2500 to get to New York and then the first and last month's rent.
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Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States.
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Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
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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?
