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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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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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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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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I don't allow people's outlook on me dictate what I do in my life and how I live my life.
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My fingers are not as fast as my brain - which isn't that much to type home about anyway.
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I work in L.A. from time to time.
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There was never any danger of Business 2.0 ever going under.
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If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.
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When I was designing Mrs. Obama's dress, half of me was saying, 'What would Halston do?' The other half was saying, 'Be who you are.' Halston, me, America, India - it's been such a great combination. This is what makes me who I am, with the clean lines I learned from Halston and complicated Indian over-the-top Bollywood traditions.
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I've learned to be one of the hardheadedest cats in the world. I've learned that.
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How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.
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With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.
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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.
