John Hersey Quotes
The first stage had been all over before the doctors even knew they were dealing with a new sickness; it was the direct reaction to the bombardment of the body, at the moment when the bomb went off, by neutrons, beta particles, and gamma rays.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara, Coppola, Neil Jordan.
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I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.
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I'm always weeping at something or other.
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The press like to talk to actors. They mustn't be surprised when actors talk back to them.
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Find the best in everybody. … you might have to wait a long time, sometimes years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.
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'Power is always a relative concept.'-the illithid Yharaskrik
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The double-sun system was relatively poor in comets; there were only a hundred billion of them.
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In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford.
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To simply demand that Assad go, and create a vacuum, could make the circumstances worse. To 'protect' Assad and his brutality is unconscionable. So you have to have a transition period here.
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There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily get, my books. That was a hard one to swallow, to not feel slighted by.
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We are asking the question: What makes the most sense for public-private partnerships for affordable housing.
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The audience has a level of control, when you watch 'Invisible,' that nothing in 2D can give you. The overall climax of the series will work no matter how you get there, and the climax of each episode will work no matter how you get there, but no two viewings of an episode will ever be the same.
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The first stage had been all over before the doctors even knew they were dealing with a new sickness; it was the direct reaction to the bombardment of the body, at the moment when the bomb went off, by neutrons, beta particles, and gamma rays.
