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 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 your child comes to you at a young age and declares he or she is passionate about this or that, the natural tendency for many parents, out of love, is to simply support that decision. That's the path of least resistance, but it's not necessarily the best path, in my opinion.
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I know other people who have started their kids in tackle football for, like, four- and five-year-olds. So I think it's up to each individual's parents, but for me personally, no I wouldn't. But would I be OK with him playing in seventh or eighth grade? Yes.
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If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, Maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. ... But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of the press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right.
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I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.
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I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don't necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.
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If you think with your emotions, slight glandular changes are sufficient to revise your entire outlook.
