Hal Clement Quotes
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In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics.
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.
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Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.
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You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.
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I used to sneak into my mother's closet and try to wear her lingerie to school.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.
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One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.
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Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.
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I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.
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I didn't really have a mentor, but I have always definitely been inspired by the '70s - the Stones, Patti Smith, Anita Pallenberg.
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Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.
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Thousands of Americans, Englishmen and Frenchmen have visited Germany during the months after the national revolution and were able to testify as eye-witnesses that there is no country in the world where law and order are better maintained than in present-day Germany. That there is no country in the world where person and property are held in better respect than in our own, but that there is perhaps also no country in the word where a more rigorous fight is put up against those who believe that they are free to let loose their lower instincts to the detriment of their fellow-beings.
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Everywhere I go, there are all these Big Star freaks, and they’re nice little guys who are usually in college, and they’re kind of lonely and misunderstood, learning to play guitar.
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I love helping entrepreneurs. It's something I really have fun doing. It's like planting a little seed and watching it grow.
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It's because I'm only interested in the big things that I'm not interested in politics.
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Human beings are prone to believe the things they wish were true.
