Steve Mann Quotes
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I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
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What I've noticed is not only in the military, but in the first responders community, that when you reach out your hand to help one of them, they almost always grab your hand with only one of theirs, because they're using their other hand to reach behind them and pull up somebody else with them.
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.
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Some felt as if 'Charlie Hebdo' was obsessed with its 'Screw Allah' stance. It's a sort of provocation that caused a lot of debates.
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I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.
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I'm still swimming.
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Italy has no colonial past in Iran.
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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
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Getting our military back on stable footing won't happen overnight. We must start this process now, since future engagements are likely and allies are scarce.
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I guess it's true what they say: if we could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.
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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.
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The only reason we don’t have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can’t have them.
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The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
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All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.
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Shoes and clothing damage our ability to survive naked in the wilderness.
