Tim Bishop (Timothy Howard "Tim" Bishop) Quotes
In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.
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Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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I don't personally do movies for myself and a faction of very cerebral cinephiles - I do it for everybody and wish for the largest amount of people to relish whatever they find they can relish in.
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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
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I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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I am excited when I get a movie and I get to move somewhere for a certain amount of time. But I am a Cali girl.
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I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.
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I'm convinced that a few guys I've dated are gay, and they won't admit it. I think we've all done that.
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My favourite piece of architecture is the Royal Conservatory of Music on Bloor (273 Bloor Street West). When they cleaned up the old building a few years back, the stonework just knocked me out. It is a great melding of the Old Toronto and the new.
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Not a wall in the building lacked books. Books even occupied the space above doorways.
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In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.