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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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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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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As a filmmaker, my approach is to come in not with preconceived notions, but with curiosity, and in that way, whether my subjects are James Carville or Anna Wintour or Dick Cheney, I am always surprised.
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The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
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In such a way she had done what her people prized above all else: she had given her respect to those different from herself.
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'Why are we drinking Zima? It’s beyond irony. It’s not funny or anything. It’s just gross. Why not just serve us jugs of Hitler’s piss instead?''Drinking Zima is something Douglas Coupland would make a character do.''To what end?''It’d be a device that would allow him to locate the characters in time and a specific sort of culture.'
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I certainly know that on our first tour of America in 1968, David Crosby came to see us backstage at the Fillmore East in New York, and I was very pleased to meet him from Buffalo Springfield and that kind of stuff. He didn't ask me anything about the music, but he said, 'Where'd you get your clothes, man?'
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I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.
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If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.
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I am responsible. Yes, I have chosen to be single.
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There’re limits to what civilized people can bring out into the open, no matter how savagely they can speculat
