Alexei Panshin Quotes
If I had the opportunity, I would make the proposal that no man should be killed except by somebody who knows him well enough for the act to have impact. No death should be like nose blowing. Death is important enough that it should affect the person who causes it.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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I want audiences to see me in different avatars.
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
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For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
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Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.
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We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.
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Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.
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Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.
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Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.
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Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.
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To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness.
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One of my favorite things to make is homemade sushi. I know how to make the rolls and it's really fun to do.
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Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
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He had doubts about the utility of examination on subjects which had been crammed for the occasion. He wanted common sense.
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I knew that if I wanted to stop being a pushover I had to get comfortable with small rejections myself. That took some work, but because of it I can now say 'no' to other people with a clear conscience.
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Entertainment's definition has been reduced to making people happy.
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When I was president, I knew exactly what I wanted to do every day to bring America together and create a greater sense of opportunity and a larger sense of responsibility and a stronger sense of community.
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First you get a habit, then it gets you.
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As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last twenty years.
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If I had the opportunity, I would make the proposal that no man should be killed except by somebody who knows him well enough for the act to have impact. No death should be like nose blowing. Death is important enough that it should affect the person who causes it.
