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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I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies, and as soon as I was able to get a subway pass, when I was 14, I joined the Museum of Modern Art and was there all weekend watching old movies.
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I'm not Deion Sanders. We're different people with different styles. People see similarities between me and him; that's fine. It's an honor to be mentioned in the same breath with him. But that's as far as I go with it.
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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Let me just say, I've seen a pub or two.
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As a kid I used to hold my breath longer than anybody else, and then I heard stories about people accidently underwater for 45 minutes - how do you recover from that? It's not a miracle. Something allows us to survive.
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I'm not a fan of fiction that's totally hopeless.
