Michael Sam Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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'm a fast writer.
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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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For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
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In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.
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A man of courage is also full of faith.
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Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
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But no one except Lucy knew that as it circled the mast it had whispered to her, "Courage, dear heart," and the voice, she felt sure, was Aslan's, and with the voice a delicious smell breathed in her face.
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It was nerve-wracking [to unleash 'Life of Pi' to the world]. The first show to the journalists, that was the first one, so I was very uptight. Then I felt okay about the reception because we did a press conference with good and friendly questions, although people looked serious. So really, after the show you went to - the premiere - that reception tells me I think the movie worked, so that was a relief. I started to feel deflated.
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Great things happen when you have the courage to be yourself
