Richard Scott Bakker Quotes
He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
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If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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This country is pretty amazing.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
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It always struck me that Africa was, in a strange way, a futuristic place and had elements and vibes and spirits that were going to inform the future. Africa Express is an attempt to engage that power outside Africa, and for everyone to benefit from it.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.
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I do believe you would be perfectly happy shut up in your study with your rolls of manuscript all your life, without seeing another human being save a servant to bring you in bread and fruit and water twice a day.
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When I first started, I wasn't really aware of anything in the industry or aware of who I really was. I just put my music out there and tried to get as many people to hear it as possible. I hadn't really thought about the kind of music I wanted to make.
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I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable.
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Nothing will ever have the impact that 9/11 had on Boeing and on the world. It just changed things overnight.
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It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you've been taught.
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He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture.
