Ben Bova Quotes
In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.
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I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
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Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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I don't ever want to feel complacent.
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The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
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There's not a lot of really great, deep, serialized television, and we can see from the data that that's what people want.
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Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball. Magic is a guy who would stand for nothing but winning and really prepared himself as well as he prepared his team. Earvin is the complete opposite.
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He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.
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I am very shy with people I don't know.
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I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.
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I've always been less interested in the person on the top of the Bellagio than I am at the person whose house got moved to create the Bellagio.
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If I can feel that actual people made the thing, and that they have deeply felt opinions about it, and care about this, and don't care about that and so on and so on - then I think it falls into the 'independent' file.
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When I was growing up, it was the guys who were hardest at school who got the prettiest girls. It's a status thing.
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You know how to vanquish, Hannibal, but you do not know how to profit from victory.
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DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.
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In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.
