John Sladek Quotes
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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Of how much real happiness we cheat our souls by preferring a trifle to God! We have a general intention of living religion; but we intend to begin tomorrow or next year. The present moment we prefer giving to the world.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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No election is ever just about one issue, but I care a lot about women's rights and making sure parents have what they need to raise healthy kids. I always have cared, but having just had a child, I know how serious it is to be a mother. It's an incredibly huge challenge. You need support. You need resources.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.
