Brian Aldiss Quotes
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Whenever I go to L.A., the make-up artist or hairdresser will end up having a conversation about how fat they think they are, and I really just can't take it seriously at all.
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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Anti-frackers are disingenuous. They bow to the religion of environmentalism.
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When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.
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Something like 'Rust and Bone' would be a dream. Very pared down. 'Orphan Black' is such a challenge. I just need something that isn't as full-on intense as that.
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The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
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Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
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The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
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Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that.
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I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'
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Under Superintendent Johnson's leadership, our police department is on a path to earn the respect of every community in the City of Chicago.
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The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
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It's not enough to trade a prison of powerlessness for the pain of an empty stomach. But history shows that governments of the people and by the people and for the people more powerful in delivering prosperity.
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Run the creature has come, there's no cover for you no prize When you've won.
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Nothing can replace the excitement, the magic and yes the glamour of a Ziegfeld show. To see the great showman sitting in the second row busily writing his telegrams is a thrill no actress can forget.
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Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights disintegrate before her protection disintegrates.
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Human nature is governed by general self-interest and affected by genetic predisposition, which implies that there are likely to be limits to our moral sensitivities.
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There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people.
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I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experience in a magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity.
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We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.
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You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.
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The only sort of tasks worth being set were impossible ones.
