James P. Hogan Quotes
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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I'm actually not on Twitter.
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The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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I feel as though there are things that I'm trying to do - you know, capturing truthfully some aspect of human experience - and I'm trying really hard not to be fake. And in writing, as in life, it's harder than you think.
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People talk about, 'Well, why don't they bring 'Growing Pains' back?' No, it belongs in the time capsule exactly where it was. It would probably look corny and dated if they tried to redo that. But I think, for its time, it was meaningful.
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I think I can deceive people. I'm like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don't have any bad intentions. But I'm a bad girl too.
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What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental apparatus from the start. There can be no doubt about its efficacy, and yet its programme is at loggerheads with the whole world, with the macrocosm as much as with the microcosm.
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I've turned down a lot of arena dates because I've done the big-arena thing. Now, I want to do something where people can feel me and I can feel them.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts.
