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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Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that's a statement.
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Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.
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I don't like grand restaurants or kowtowing waiters. I don't need that kind of attention and I don't want it.
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Bofors was a steelmaker that became a forgings company and then went on to build guns. Companies like Krupp and Thyssen were in steel and forgings before entering defence. There are similar examples in the U.K.; it is a natural progression.
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For in the last analysis it is human consciousness which is the subject matter of history.
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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.
