Brian Aldiss Quotes
The shuffle only demonstrated people’s fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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I'm easily entertained.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.
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Life is God's art.
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.
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Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.
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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
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How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's funny to you is a personal thing.
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And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live.
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You can get people to work by using threats or by promising rewards.
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I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.
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Fortunately for me, I'm married to an amazing woman - Nancy Lasseter - who is wise enough not to let me buy every car I want. If I was single, I would be living in a very small apartment and renting a warehouse full of cool cars.
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The shuffle only demonstrated people’s fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition.
