Frank Herbert Quotes
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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Consumption is still going up on Alibaba. This is because when the economy goes down people look online to Alibaba to buy cheaper things.
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.
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I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me. I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.
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So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.
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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.
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What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff.
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The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
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I've always been afraid of saying no to people because I don't want them to be disappointed and dislike me.
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I don't want to think too much about me.
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Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection.
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I've been surfing for a couple years, in the offseason in California and in Hawaii. I'm not very good, but it's just something that to be out there in the water, no cell phone, no music... very few sports are as pure as that.
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President Obama has expressed his commitment to responsible stewardship of our land, water, and other natural resources. And one way of restoring the land to its natural condition is what we are doing here today - breaking pavement for the People's Garden.
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The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.
