S. M. Stirling Quotes
You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier.
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I have such an eclectic taste. I like listening to classical music and pop music.
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I love sparkly eyes for the holidays, especially New Year's Eve.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
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Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.
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It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.
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I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.
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For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
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I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.
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There is a lot of Indian connect in 'Million Dollar Arm'. It is about two Indian boys, and we even shot quite a bit of the movie in India.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.
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I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.
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In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.
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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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I like getting to the meat of things. You can't get it in a five-minute interview. I like to hone a person. I like to make eye contact.
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I speak two languages, Body and English.
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The first thing I always look at on a girl is her eyes.
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Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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Here's the thing... when people start making music, they start borrowing styles from other people, because that's what you do. You start by recreating hip-hop beats you've heard from other people, or you start mimicking other people, or you're just listening to stuff.
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I just wanted to see China with my own eyes. I wanted to see whether North Korea was the best country in the world or China was the best. I grew up believing that China was much worse than North Kore, because that's what the regime told us.
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It is the disease of not listening...... that I am troubled with.
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You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier.
