Ben Bova Quotes
My first published novel was written for teenagers, and there were rules laid down by the publisher: no sex, no smoking, no swearing. I blew up entire solar systems, I consigned billions of people to horrible death; they didn't seem to mind that at all. But no hanky-panky.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
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Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
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We played the games that people playWe made our mistakes along the way.Somehow I know deep in my heartYou needed me.
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Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.
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At a very early stage of the novel's development I get this urge to collect bits of straw and fluff, and to eat pebbles. Nobody will ever discover how clearly a bird visualizes, or if it visualizes at all, the future nest and the eggs in it.
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Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
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There are so many levels in fashion that I'm happy to dip in and dip out of it all.
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My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.
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If we could see ourselves... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which neither began at birth nor will end with the death of the body.
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My first published novel was written for teenagers, and there were rules laid down by the publisher: no sex, no smoking, no swearing. I blew up entire solar systems, I consigned billions of people to horrible death; they didn't seem to mind that at all. But no hanky-panky.
