Michael Moorcock (Michael John Moorcock) Quotes
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Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.
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In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.
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Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.
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I was born in Argentina where polo is popular, and my father always loved horses, so he encouraged me to play. He's the main reason I started to play polo and get involved with the sport.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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When I got married in Bucharest, there were 10,000 people on the street. People didn't go to work that day. It was emotional to see how people care about you. I didn't expect that.
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I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
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To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.
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Philadelphia loves its team, and being able to win a World Series for the city, fans, players and our Phillies organization meant so much to me.
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Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.
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The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
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... I just know that, right now, … the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.
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'Pilar - remember - nothing is so boring as devotion.'
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Later I became very involved in writing. I really enjoyed that moment of writing. People would pass around my sentences. That was a feeling I never had before. It was like a bullet out of the gun.
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The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
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War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.
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Congress must demonstrate fiscal responsibility.
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Larry Hagman was my best friend for 35 years. He was the Pied Piper of life and brought joy to everyone he knew.
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Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to fill is obviously important, too. But there is more to life, and there ought to be much more to childhood, than readiness for economic functions.
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My Levis split and my bollocks fell out. I had no idea at first.
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You're the soldier girl who tells the other troops who haven't fought the battle what it's like so they can fight it better.
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The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a child with a spinal cord injury has had his moral sense blinded by religious metaphysics.
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Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.
