John Brunner Quotes
Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.
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I won't join another band again.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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Internal security implies also an external dimension, a defence capacity.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Our lives are in God's hands. We have no control. We can't control Him by using the Bible or cross as a good luck charm without a thorough reformation of heart and life.
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If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
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I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.
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It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.
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This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men ... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.
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Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.
