Ernest Shackleton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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I feel like a lot of directing is casting.
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I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.
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The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll.
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I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.
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I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.
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I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.
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One of the first courses I ever taught at Dartmouth was on the Bible as literature.
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I like diner coffee.
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Some writers just write about their own lives. Well, I don't want to do that. I want to have a really boring life. A quiet, boring life so no one wants to write a biography. I'm the only writer in history only to have one wife, for instance.
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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
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Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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Optimism is the true moral courage.
