Nigel Calder Quotes
The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.
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I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys.
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A man being sued after a woman has more sex than intended is like Lay’s being sued after someone has more potato chips than intended. In brief, date rape can be a crime, a misunderstanding, or buyer’s remorse.
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I regard religion as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
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Climate change might be disastrous, but does that mean we want carbon taxes that raise the price of a gallon of heating oil to $10? And how exactly will those taxes affect economic growth?
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Singing seems to be inherent in Filipino, just as it is in my race. That's why I have this affinity with Filipinos.
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If a kid disappears, now there's Amber Alerts: they know this-this-this. In the '50s, we kids wandered around. Nobody knew what you were doing.
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As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.
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Advertisers like shows that viewers like to watch live.
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Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.
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The physical part was one thing. Whatever - I broke my face; that'll heal. The mental aspect was the biggest shock to the system. You just don't know how to experience stuff like that. You don't have any control over it, either. It's just how your body and brain reacts to something like that happening.
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I know that some filmmakers strive for a kind of naturalistic approach, but you're never going to capture something that's really natural - just the simple fact that you choose to put a frame around something means that you've already chosen one particular thing to put more attention on.
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So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.
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Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable?
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There are just some things that you can't deny.
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The objective of producing useful devices has strongly influenced the choice of the research projects with which I have been associated.
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The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.
