Brian Aldiss Quotes
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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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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Herbs deserve to be used much more liberally.
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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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Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.
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All people seem to want to talk about is the current Ashes series, and whether England are going to reverse the trend of recent series.
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There is always magic to be summoned at any point. I love to live in a world of magic, but not a fake world of magic. We all really basically have a lot of magic... It’s only those of us who choose to accept it, that really understand it. It’s there for everyone. That’s the only thing that I feel I am able to give to people and that’s why I know that they respond to me because I try to give them only their own magic... not mine, but theirs.
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Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work.
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The only sort of tasks worth being set were impossible ones.
