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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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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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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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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I already am a product.
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I imagine there are things I wouldn't do, but I haven't been offered those recently either.
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If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first.
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Since my life has been wayward and impulsive, always a search for something that is not there, and then disillusionment, I believe I need all the excuses I can make.
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Nobody likes being told who or what they are.
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I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids' films.
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Learning to domesticate the horse was a sort of energy revolution.
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America has gone crazy with greed. I really have to say that.
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I have more information in one place than anybody in the world.
