J. G. Holland Quotes
There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.
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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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I've always liked to dress up; I've always liked to look good. You look good, you feel good, you play good.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
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It's cool cause my sister is older than me and we went to the same high school, so by the time I got to high school, I got the lowdown on all the teachers and everything.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions, great or small.
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Wealth comes from big goals and sustained action toward those goals every day....Never surrender.
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I think if religion closes discussion or exchange of ideas or curiosity about other views, it's not true to its core.
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What's the third smartphone platform? Is it Windows phone? Is Windows Phone going to finally get off the mat in the developed world? Amazon believes their platform has a chance to become the third.
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Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real sacrifice, and it will be painful.
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There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.
