Brian Aldiss Quotes
If you think with your emotions, slight glandular changes are sufficient to revise your entire outlook.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
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As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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The thing about Drew Goddard and Mike Schur is that they are legit geniuses, and they love storytelling. They love creating worlds, love messing with the audience; they love doing things that we don't expect. To get to be a part of that is too good to be true.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.
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Probably the only type of cosmetic surgery I'd consider is having my bust reduced. It's alright for my current role in 'The Marquise' because it's a costume drama, which means boned corsets and a bit of cleavage, but it's a drag otherwise.
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Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.
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The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
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I try to cook dinner, but it's difficult when I'm working.
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Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
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You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.
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Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.
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I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian.
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When I have difficulties, I will not complain.
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Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.
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It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.
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The one thing I never want to see again is a military parade. When I resigned from the army and went to a farm I was happy. When the rebellion came, I returned to the service because it was a duty. I had no thought of rank; all I did was try and make.
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If you think with your emotions, slight glandular changes are sufficient to revise your entire outlook.
