Peter F. Hamilton Quotes
Space opera has always given authors a way to include a vast array of ideas and concepts. The opportunities it provides are limitless. Long may it reign.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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Having principled men and women in office is how you protect yourself from tyranny, and that was something I learned from when I was 2, 3, 5 years old.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
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I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.
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Concerning Poland, I can only say that the peoples of Central Europe and Hungary are a community in fate, to the death. Many of us would spill our blood for Poland any time. And vice versa: in an emergency, many Polish people would give his life to protect Hungarians. This has happened more than once over the course of history.
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So many girls trying to be models, like, 'Oh my god, I want to be a model!' Nobody really knows the reality of it. It's a lot of hard work, but at the same time, it's a lot of fun.
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If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
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One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world.
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Age is just a number. When I started, I never worried about how long I was going to play. I had very specific goals, and that's what I really chased.
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There's Alex Linz and then there's Alexander David Linz which is too long and Alex D. Linz is this nice, short, cool sounding thing.
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I prefer to find craftspeople I can be colleagues with and who take an area of responsibility and run with it.
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I think the violence in the world right now is being reflected inside people. And I also believe the violence inside people is being reflected in the world.
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Space opera has always given authors a way to include a vast array of ideas and concepts. The opportunities it provides are limitless. Long may it reign.
