Brian Aldiss Quotes
'Are you a religious man, Joe?'Flitch pulled a face. 'I leaves that sort of thing to women.'
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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I think the technology will get bigger and the price of Bitcoin will go up, so I'm speculating to increase my purchasing power. But I don't intend to sell the Bitcoin. I intend to hold it until there's a day where I can just use Bitcoin completely.
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.
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Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One (1748), as quoted by Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Chapter II: The Spirit of Capitalism, 1905. 12, 3
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It ends all things: birds, trees, flowers, mountain tops, and business; it grinds stones to sand, and as terrible as it is, and it's the most beautiful thing we have in our lives - time.
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As a filmmaker, I wish we didn't have to do trailers at all, quite honestly. I wish we didn't have to do posters. I wish didn't have to give anything away. I wish people could just come in the movie blind. But as an audience member, I respect that you have to tell an audience that this is worth your time.
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Nature is full of drama. I know nothing about biology, about birds, about insects, about the details of politics. I just make movies about human interest stories.
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The 800-pound gorillas of TV news are gone. When I was the White House correspondent at NBC, and Tom Brokaw was anchor, the reporters were protected.
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'Are you a religious man, Joe?'Flitch pulled a face. 'I leaves that sort of thing to women.'
