Norman Spinrad Quotes
At that moment, I do now truly believe, the deed was done, in the sense that the decision of the will is the true essence of the act.
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In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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I have not seen 'Vaalu' yet, but I am sure it will be good.
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You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.
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Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
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There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
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There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
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I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.
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When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.
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The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others.
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There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.
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I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.
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If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.
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If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys.
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Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.
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Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments.
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It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.
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Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice of technical approach, by the selection of the subject matterand by his decision as to the exact cinematic instant of exposure, he is blending the variables of interpretation into an emotional whole.
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At that moment, I do now truly believe, the deed was done, in the sense that the decision of the will is the true essence of the act.
