Jerry Pournelle Quotes
Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots.
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
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While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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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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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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I'm an emotional person.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.
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Change what you are doing; change your world. And if enough people do that, we can change the world.
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I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
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Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots.
