Frank Herbert Quotes
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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Contempt is the only asymmetrical facial expression, so it's easy to spot once you're aware of its signs. One researcher has successfully tracked it in couples as a predictor of divorce. When someone is angry at you, you've still got traction with them, but when they display contempt, you've been dismissed.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.
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Now, they hold the World Cup every year, so it's like any Super Series. It's boring. To me, it's very boring. I think the players will always attend the World Cup. But for the fans, and also for most players, the Olympics and Asian Games will become more important. Nobody will look forward to the World Cup with anticipation.
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Obviously, it's great to know that your music is being listened to.
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Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
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We can't stop anybody from doing what they want to do.
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Acting to me is real life - I don't act.
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'American Music' is an inventive, passionate, pithy novel whose major theme is love itself and whose minor theme, music, is an emotional, meaningful counterpoint. Like Count Basie and His Orchestra, this book swings.
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I don't know why people feel that I am snooty. I am not a person who has ever given an interview on image building. I have never been that person, as I am very confident of what I do. People do PR, but I get completely foxed. I don't know how to do it. I stay away from the limelight, as I think my work should speak on my behalf.
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My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'
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My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.
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The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.
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On this planet, there is no perfection. If you chose to end relationships because of one mistake, you're going to be alone.
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One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.
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I never use the word 'I' when I interview someone. I think it's irrelevant.
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My family is the largest single contributor of soft money to the national Republican Party.
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The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
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Lack of clarity is the number-one time-waster. Always be asking, 'What am I trying to do? How am I trying to do it.
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Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
