Gene Roddenberry Quotes
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In combat sports, personalities are what draw.
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
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Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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You can't play having a mental disability. You have to play whatever that person's truth is without any judgement.
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I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture.
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Scotland is the Canada of England!
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My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collecting for a long time. There are a lot of flea markets in that part of France, and she knew what I liked.
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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.
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I try to pride myself on being involved with the fans and taking pictures when they're asked for because I know I was that little kid one day that really looked up to stars like myself, and I try to give them that on my behalf.
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Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.
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I'm someone that never likes to overpower the girls in hair and makeup.
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Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?
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Hell is paved with good intentions.
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What I feel is that true creation happens when you're making something out of nothing - like it's divine, you know. Creation is a completely divine concept.
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Clearly, if we'd had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.
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John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language of freedom.
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The bread you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor.
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The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.
