Olaf Stapledon Quotes
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Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.
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Now that I've achieved my goal to win the belt, I want to be the best of all times. I want to be remembered as the lightweight with most title defenses.
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I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.
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I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.
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I don't want to do only blockbusters.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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Each emission of an alpha or beta ray accompanies the transmutation of an atom; the energy communicated to these rays comes from inside the atom.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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At 3-D Imax theaters, audiences have shown they are willing to pay a premium to wear headgear fitted with liquid-crystal lenses synchronized via infrared signals with the movie projector, which runs at twice the normal frame rate. These movie viewers plumb new depths in depth perception - they experience extreme realism.
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At the economic summit in China, Vladimir Putin is being accused of flirting with the first lady of China. Then again, Putin does have a history of not respecting boundaries.
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Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.
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Big successful corporations have established their own culture by the time you come along, so you have as high of a chance of changing their overall culture as you have of convincing the U.S. Marines to adopt the 'long-haired look' as their standard military haircut.
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Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.
