Frank Herbert Quotes
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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And I just want to tell you this - we're in favor of a lot of things and we're against mighty few.
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Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that senses the world outside and within, produces love and sorrow, keeps our hearts beating and lungs breathing, composes our thoughts, and constructs our consciousness.
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I'm fine the way I am. There's nothing wrong with me.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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Plus l'homme cultive les arts, moins il bande.
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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
