Raymond Bonner Quotes
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
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My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.
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A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.
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I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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I want to do all roles. The sky's the limit.
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Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
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A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form.
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I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.
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When you're someone who cares about making a difference in the world, and you have resources to do that, you have literally hundreds of choices you could make about how to do that.
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Like I always tell people, I don't pander to any audience, but you have to play to your audience.
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I'm not interested in making all-black films - I come from a very diverse culture; I want to work with every type of person. I work a lot with women executives because they seem to be a lot more open minded about that and a lot more progressive in that way.
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Vampires are sleek demons for good times. They suavely leech off society - like investment bankers who plunder outsize shares of deals for themselves or rapacious fund managers.
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Science fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is in fact going on, what people actually do and feel, how people relate to everything else in this vast sack, this belly of the universe, this womb of things to be and tomb of things that were, this unending story.
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The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.
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In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.
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I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.
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The Philippines, it might be said, is a country in search of an identity.
