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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The establishment wonders why we can't get more of the black vote. It's because it's not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don't think alike. Most black people just vote alike.
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I'm getting optimistic. I think, as I talk to people around the country - they seem to get it. They want a return to those things that made America different and great.
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God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that.
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I once tried to sing jazz for real. But jazz didn't do it for me. You can't have jazz without a jazz world, which doesn't exist anymore.
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The shuffle only demonstrated people’s fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition.
