Michael Sam Quotes
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Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
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Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
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The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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I want every Israeli child, secular and religious, to know about Moses, about Maimonides, about Yoni Netanyahu, about Hannah Senesh and S. Y. Agnon. I want every child to know how to read the Bible, and know how to make Kiddush.
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There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting the same information out of a scene that you already have and a scene that's actually more powerful, so you have to make the tough decision to take it out.
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Generalized statements … which instill nebulous fear without specific information are exactly in line with the goals of terrorism. 25.
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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
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As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.
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It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on.
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When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness into freedom.
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Great things happen when you have the courage to be yourself
