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 sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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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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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.
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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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Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.
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I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
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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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Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
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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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When then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued me in 2003 over my stewardship as a director of the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE's legal expenses were more than $100 million, which made it perhaps the priciest litigation in the state's history.
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It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free.
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The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see the world in ways that are deeply influenced by the particular features of the tongue that we speak. The second is that we are all the same - that we can share the same broad and narrow kinds of feelings, information, understandings, and so forth. Without both of these suppositions, translation could not exist. Nor could anything we would like to call social life. Translation is another name for the human condition.
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I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.
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The reason why Millennials are inspiring is what they give: the music they give.
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Why don’t you go somewhere quietly and consult your history books if you have no consciences to consult?
