Frank Herbert Quotes
A person cries out against life because it's lonely, and because life's broken off from whatever created it. But no matter how much you hate life, you love it, too. It's like a caldron boiling with everything you have to have - but very painful to the lips.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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A lot of cats are not that social.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they were going to remake it, I was like, 'This is not going to work. I'm going to completely veto this show. I am not going to watch this show.' But now, I love it.
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Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potential, is something that everyone can benefit from.
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It's important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. What's done is done.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, there's a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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The green thing I don't think frightens kids. It frightened me when I was like little because I didn't have the internet and didn't have all these other things that were, you know, in front of me at all times and accessible.
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I'm a student of patterns. At heart, I'm a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything.
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I kind of think I'm going to live a long life as a punishment.
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A person cries out against life because it's lonely, and because life's broken off from whatever created it. But no matter how much you hate life, you love it, too. It's like a caldron boiling with everything you have to have - but very painful to the lips.
