Gene Wolfe Quotes
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
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'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.
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I dropped out of high school when I was, like, 15, so I just focused on doing music. It's all I wanted to do; I didn't want to work or anything else. I took all the negativity and obstacles that came with life, and I just put it in the music.
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Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye? When did music come this way? Children dear, was it yesterday?
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My guiltiest pleasure is... chocolates with strawberry cream and trashy television - 'Geordie Shore,' 'Katie,' etc.
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There's no chance of cheering him up, sir. He likes being miserable, so he does, and the bastard will get over it.
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People who wish to be lost always get their way.
