Hal Clement Quotes
Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.
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My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband will always believe in them, love them and accept them.
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I believe nuclear energy in Jordan will be done in such a way where it is a public-private partnership so everyone can see exactly what's going on.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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If you believe in yourself and feel confident in yourself, you can do anything. I really believe that.
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I believe in eating what I like and sweating it out in the gym.
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And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.
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To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
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I loved working with kids, and kids are the most incredibly discerning audience. And if they don't believe you, they will tell you and let you know. I mean, kids is where it's at, really.
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As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.
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The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.
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I do believe in happy-ever-after.
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The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
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In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
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I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.
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I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.
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I really believe that carpet-bombing, bombing civilian populations, is a form of terror - it's state terror as opposed to vigilante terrorism.
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I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.
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No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.
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The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.
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Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that's pure sugar, because the stakes are so low.
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I just feel like there's this illicit thrill in reading other people's mail and spying on their lives.
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I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for.
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I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the 1980s, I moved to Japan. For young adventure seekers like myself, the white-hot Japanese miracle held a similar appeal as Russia in 1920s or Paris in the 1950s.
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Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.
