Jerry Pournelle Quotes

There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years.

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• It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
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• Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

  

  Garth Brooks
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• Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
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• Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.

  

  Kate Smith
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• I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
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• No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
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• I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.

  

  Olivia Wilde
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• We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
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• I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.

  

  Valerie Simpson
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• My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.

  

  Jack Kerouac
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• It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
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• Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

  

  Ouida
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• My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.

  

  Jack Ma
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• I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
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• I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
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• I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.

  

  John C. Danforth
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• Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• Personally, I always try to focus on the little things in my game. As a defender and attacking outside back, I continuously work on completing passes, not being too predictable going forward into the attack, good services into the box, good positioning and footwork.

  

  Ali Krieger
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• Sometimes you see a movie and you can really feel that it's an actor putting in a performance. Someone said 'cut' and they're back in their trailer having a coffee or getting their hair done.

  

  Andrew Dominik
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• There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years.

  

  Jerry Pournelle
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