Abel Stevens Quotes
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There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
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I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.
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When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.
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I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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I'd like to sell out worldwide stadium tours. That'd be something. Or to have sixty number ones on Billboard.
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I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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I require every Taipei student to swim; if they can't pass the test they won't graduate. Why do I do that? Because I think that is very, very important integral part of their education.
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He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up he did in the same matter-of-fact sensible way; without a touch of imagination, without a sparkle of brilliancy, but with the inexplicable niceness of his type.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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People sometimes tell me that I don't talk or act or look like a metal fan. Well, what does a metal fan look like? I've found people from all walks of life who love metal.
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Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.
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Only those who love with the heart can animate the love of others.
