Jeff Vandermeer Quotes
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If I can't drive my old pickup to wherever I'm going, well, chances are good that I just won't go.
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I'm very punctual. I wish I could change this about myself because most people around me are not.
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If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.
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If I had my life to live all over again, I really think I would have been a fit person. Looking around me, I realise that the men and women who walked and ran and swam and played sport look better and feel better than the rest of us.
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I'm moderating one of the presidential primary debates right after I've had a baby. I'm sitting in a dirty closet on the floor behind the auditorium where this debate is taking place between Obama, Hillary Clinton, and I'm pumping breast milk... twenty minutes before I'm going on.
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I used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And it was important to do it as well as you possibly can.
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I've experienced wrong diagnoses and been given antibiotics for things that could be cured naturally. We may not think much of it, but it destroys our immunity.
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Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?
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If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.
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I'm a proud American - becoming a citizen in 1988 was one of the most profoundly moving occasions in my life; I'm a former Texan and a recent Californian.
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Music should always be first.
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A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
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Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.
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The Seventh Seal is one of the few films really close to my heart. Actually, I don't know why. It's certainly far from perfect. I had to contend with all sorts of madness, and one can detect here and there the speed with which it was made. But I find it even, strong, and vital.
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Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon his watch, as well as he that goes over to the enemy.
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In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.
Garry Kasparov -
«Exporting is positive because you sell what you produce.»
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Always remember, Mr. Robarts, that when you go into an attorney's office door, you will have to pay for it, first or last.
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The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface.
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My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.
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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks...
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I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.
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I'm not a fan of fiction that's totally hopeless.
