Peter F. Hamilton Quotes
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I'm on the road earning my money. I didn't get any million pound record deals. Not unless you're Jedward! I'm doing very well, but I still have a mortgage to pay off. So I'm on the road.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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The last album, 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run.' I was really proud of, but then I didn't actually know whether it was going to come out on any label at all. So I didn't know if anyone was going to hear it. Then of course we ended up doing another EP after that called 'Closer.'
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Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.
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One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.
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Part of the reason why Kobe Bryant is such a big inspiration to me is because he was shipped off to the Lakers right out of high school. He went from English class to the Great Western Forum.
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You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.
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I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.
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Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.
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I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.
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The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment - of joy or sadness, in the UK or around the world, at times when the nation wants to celebrate, mourn or just enjoy itself people turn to the BBC.
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To win Olympic gold has been a dream for me for seven or eight years now, so it was amazing to actually achieve that.
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Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they're in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one, but a lot of people don't. A pressure cooker is interesting because by pressurizing the vessel, you're able to cook much hotter than the boiling point of water, and still have water be present.
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My parents always say I have really good legs. I've worked really hard for them. They always insist that I show my legs.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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There was a time when being loaded and loved and popular really mattered a lot to me. I'd say that when I was less popular, I learned to be happy without those things.
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Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.
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I'm not a competitive person, so I don't feel any pressure to win. I won't sink into a depression if we don't win.
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Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.
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I make sounds while all these young musicians make jam, I make good sounds but they are always jamming, they don’t make good sound, they just jam.
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If you've enjoyed 'Battlestar Galactica', you should love my stuff.
