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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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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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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I give the degrees of things seen by the eye as the musician does of the sounds heard by the ear.
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The struggle between the two worlds Fascism and Democracy can permit no compromises. The new cycle which begins with the ninth year of the Fascist regime places the alternative in even greater relief - either we or they, either their ideas or ours, either our State or theirs!
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It's great to be able to play the 'bad guy' role, because you always get a lot to do, but I'm always looking at the why - how does a person get to that particular point.
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They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.
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One person who was interesting was Jello Biafra, who was - of all things - very professional!
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It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up.
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It's just the stupidest law possible... You're just making criminals out of people who aren't engaged in criminal activity. And we're spending zillions of dollars trying to fight a war we can't win! We could make zillions, just legalize it and tax it like we do liquor. It's stupid.
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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.
