Peter F. Hamilton Quotes
There will always be people treated badly, which I feel is basic human nature and difficult to eliminate.
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My favorite thing to do in this world is to be on the ice playing hockey and try to entertain fans and bring wins to the Chicago Blackhawks.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra, including celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty. Mithunda remembers me and is very proud of me. He can't believe that the guy who used to come to his house in short pants has become so successful.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
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Most Israelis have a sense, 'We just don't want to live in the Middle East anymore. We don't want it to be the Middle East. Were going to just build a wall or operate unilaterally' - not try to even use force as used to be the case to convince Arabs to accept Israel by convincing them that Israel is here to stay and then negotiating.
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They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.
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Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that' s one of the reasons for campus unrest.
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You have lines of people outside Apple stores waiting for the latest iPhone, which adds to the hype around new product launch. So scarcity has value not just in its own right, but as a basis for free PR - it can become a story on the nightly news.
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The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us humans. That's why it's getting tougher by the day to get people to turn the page. Maybe we writers ought to try writing for goldfish!
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There will always be people treated badly, which I feel is basic human nature and difficult to eliminate.
