Brian Aldiss Quotes
Why don’t you go somewhere quietly and consult your history books if you have no consciences to consult?
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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My family, in a way, gives me a reference as to who I am as an individual, and my work gives me a reference as to who I am as a Homo sapiens. I think that's a very perfect match, in my view.
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I'm sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people's success, especially if he had something to do with it.
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There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.
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There's only so many variations on the basics of human relationships. To me, it's all about the detail and how you tell the story. How you say, 'I love you.'
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It has not been hard to grow older, because I believe if you have something you believe in, that will keep you alive far more than plastic surgery or Botox.
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My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.
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You, your employer and your plan's investment managers fail to follow even the most basic rules of investing. You overtrade, chase performance, do not think long term. All of you - All Of You - have done a horrible job managing your retirement plans.
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'Laguna Beach' was definitely not as manufactured as 'The Hills' was for me. 'Laguna Beach' was more putting us in situations where we normally wouldn't be in or hanging out with people we wouldn't necessarily hang out with.
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I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic.
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Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.
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I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated art classes. My father was a kind of a Sunday painter and he liked to draw and do water colors. So, I would bring him my assignment and he would do them for me, because it was easy for him to do.
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I've been seeing a different side basically all year long. His demeanor is totally different from being an assistant coach and the Maurice Cheeks that I got to know throughout the years of him being here. I expect it because he has a different role now.
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Why don’t you go somewhere quietly and consult your history books if you have no consciences to consult?
