John Brunner Quotes
Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.
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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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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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The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.
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Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer.
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When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.
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She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
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A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'
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We love but while we may; And therefore is my love so large for thee, Seeing it is not bounded save by love.
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Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.
