Avram Davidson Quotes
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The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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Energy and bitcoin work really well together because you can pay out in micro-transaction units. As the energy gets used, they pay out, and it's by the kilowatt rather than by the month.
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No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - they couldn't believe it - after all that time. You know, it wasn't a compilation, it was new songs.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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I dream about doing a film about once a week.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.
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When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.
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Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
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There are people who have energy that say 'don't come near me, don't get too close.' There's people like Adrienne Shelley who have the energy of 'come over here and give me a hug and if you're around me you're going to be happy about it.'
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A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
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I've cracked my head open before; I've had some great injuries. So I have to do it on the side now. I cracked my head open kiting before a competition in New Caledonia. The water was shallow, and I missed a trick and hit my head on a rock.
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What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
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I can't cut out a piece of cloth and make a lovely dress, but I can mend tears in shirts and sew on buttons.
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I've been known to do lunges down hotel hallways. I also like to use the ice bucket in the hotel room as a medicine ball.
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Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
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The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.
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Experience may be a bitter teacher, but She is a good one.
