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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I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.
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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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When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken, Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk.
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There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.
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When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room.
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Optimization is generally detrimental to future success, but it is the only way to accomplish present success in competition with others who are equally interested in short-term results.
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We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.
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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.
