Brian Aldiss Quotes

However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.

Brian Aldiss

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• I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Up
  • America
  • Freedom

• We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • School
  • Kids
  • Hope

• People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Young
  • Danger

• There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Support
  • Gun
  • Safety

• What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Honesty
  • Clients
  • Competence

• Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Eye
  • Healthy
  • Beholder

• Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.

  

  Edith Head
  • Woman
  • Dresses
  • Lady

• I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Love
  • Around
  • Days

• We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Energy
  • New
  • Research

• Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Age
  • Dress
  • Appropriate

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Win
  • Celebrate
  • Ice

• If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Best
  • Look

• I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • People
  • Music
  • Day

• We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • People
  • Power
  • Faith

• Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Work
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• 'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Heart
  • Creation
  • Closest

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• Yes, we didn't do this -- we didn't produce these videotapes on time. My letter to Sen. Thompson made clear we should have found them. But the one thing that is absolutely clear is that the only pattern here is not one of incompetence -- and we don't make an incompetence defense -- the pattern here is one of an ongoing intensive day-to-day effort to try to meet the committee's needs and that is the only pattern a fair reader can see.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • Time
  • Effort
  • Defense

• I constantly deal with being called Shaft, and I vacillate back and forth with people coming up to me about it. But it never ceases to blow me away with the impact that character had on my life and my fans' lives.

  

  Richard Roundtree
  • Life
  • Character
  • Shaft

• Remember where you have been and know where you are going. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way.

  

  Nikita Koloff
  • Life
  • Journey
  • Savored

• 'Gigabit' seems to mean 600 megabits. It's a VAX gigabit.

  

  Ken Thompson

• Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Reality
  • Reflection
  • Photograph

• However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.

  

  Brian Aldiss
  • Life