James P. Hogan Quotes
Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.
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We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.
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Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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I wanted a bronzer so I could look like I just came from Ibiza everyday.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did. My aunt, who played a big part in my life, was a little bit more reserved, because if they don't see you on TV every week they think you must be starving.
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People tend to put entertainers on pedestals. We're human beings, just like you. You may see us smiling, and whether we have money or not, we still have bills to pay, we still have our stresses. I think a lot of people want to focus on others' shortcomings to make themselves feel better. And it's a very sad thing.
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When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
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Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.
