John Brunner Quotes
If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.
Quotes to Explore
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Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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How can the cost of education be the cost of life? It is unacceptable; it is reprehensible that we have allowed it to fester.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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I have always been a strong champion for New Hampshire's environment.
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The Lakers are family. My kids don't have to switch schools. Little things like that are important. People don't think about things like that. I feel like something special is going to happen in this town.
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A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
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Phones remain a critical component of the Microsoft device portfolio and an important piece of our mobility strategy, but a restructuring is in order.
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Our aim in studying the Godhead must be to know God himself better. Our concern must be to enlarge our acquaintance, not simply with the doctrine of God’s attributes, but with the living God whose attributes they are.
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Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.
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I just always loved watching the History Channel and stuff like that. I could come home from school and just watch it all day. It just interested me.
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If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.
