Jerry Pournelle Quotes
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.
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I wouldn't ever pose naked... I'm fine to do bikinis and certainly lingerie if I feel it's done tastefully... cute like Victoria's Secret, but nothing like raunchy or overly sexual.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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Right now I would rank Norway as the largest country in the world, I have never seen anything like it
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It is the thing that is most remote from the world in which we ourselves live that attracts us most. We are under the spell of what is distant from us. It is not our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand.
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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I have more information in one place than anybody in the world.
