Alexei Panshin Quotes
There's no reason to trade insults. We have our way of life and they have theirs. I wouldn't live as they do, but disrespect seems pointless. I'm sure there are good people among them.
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
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I can't cook to save my life.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people.
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As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
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As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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My dream evening is wearing my sweatpants, eating something delicious and watching TV with my boyfriend.
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I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
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Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns.
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I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op Art. I haven't the slightest idea what that is, Op Art. I've been doing this work for thirty years now.
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Il y a toujours quelque chose d’absent qui me tourmente.
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Lovely Rita, Meter Maid, nothing could come between us. When it gets dark I'll tow your heart away
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Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.
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What I want to impart on any movie I work on is I want to make it entertaining. That's what I feel I do.
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In mid-May, the House of Representatives approved the full amount of money that the Veterans Administration said was needed for next year - plus an additional $1 billion increase for veterans' health care.
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Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.
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You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with and a sense of humour and a complete relaxation, even when you’re discussing serious things, does help to mobilise friends around you. And I love that.
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There's no reason to trade insults. We have our way of life and they have theirs. I wouldn't live as they do, but disrespect seems pointless. I'm sure there are good people among them.
