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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I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
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People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.
