Brian Stableford Quotes
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.
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I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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I love the way Monteverdi's opera embodies the triumph of evil love in such a luscious way. The closing love duet is just pure amoral, liquid passion. The Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment sound great in the Albert Hall, and the Glyndebourne cast is fabulous.
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The Russians had got a real head-start into space; America was playing catch-up.
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I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.
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Pyrrhus said, 'If I should overcome the Romans in another fight, I were undone.'
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Aside from being bad sportsmanship - Romney basically said Obama won by cheating - he was displaying the same obtuseness about the wants and needs of ordinary people that did more to torpedo his campaign than any goodies Obama might have had to dole out.
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God moves in mysterious ways. All gods do. It's the only way they can work.
