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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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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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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In the case of the Analytical Engine, we have undoubtedly to lay out a certain capital of analytical labour in one particular line, but this is in order that the engine may bring us in a much larger return in another line.
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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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The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.
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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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'Smirking in the Boys’ Room', Rebecca Traister, The Cut, Jan 2016
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Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word 'blue' in the singular is full of optimism and positive connotation to most people.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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The more alive we feel, the more we can contribute to the lives of others.
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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.
