Algis Budrys Quotes
There’re limits to what civilized people can bring out into the open, no matter how savagely they can speculat
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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
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Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.
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Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports.
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My successor, John Kerry, and President Obama got a deal that put a lid on Iran's nuclear program without firing a single shot. That's diplomacy. That's coalition-building. That's working with other nations.
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All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.
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Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.
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It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.
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Suddenly, we are putting ourselves as the next dinosaurs. It's rather dark; we have narrowed our dreams. It is time to restore our visions. And so it's not a nostalgic idea; it is based with this unconscious need to restore a kind of dynamic for tomorrow.
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There’re limits to what civilized people can bring out into the open, no matter how savagely they can speculat
