William Sims Quotes
Techniques such as genetic engineering, psychoactive drugs and electronic control of the brain make possible a transformation of the species into docile, fully-obedient, 'safe' organisms.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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You could give the best audition ever and not get the role or not get a callback because you just weren't what they were looking for.
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We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.
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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
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Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions.
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Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
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'Then one can't make a living out of poetry?''Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.'
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For 'Is' and 'Is-not' though with Rule and Line And 'Up' and 'Down' by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, Was never deep in anything but - Wine.
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Be nice to people – all people – even when you don't have to be. Everybody is important.
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A man can never dream these kinds of thingsEspecially when she came and spread her wingsWhispered in my ear the things I'd likeThen she flew away into the night.
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Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
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When I'm on the court, I picture myself as like a gladiator.
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Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It's the people that matter, not the venue. So when the trend leaders of one social niche or another decide the place everyone is socializing has lost its luster or, more important, its exclusivity, they move on to the next one, taking their followers with them.
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The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, and Christ's kingdom established upon earth.
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I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a corner to be taught about.
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Because President Obama had an overall strategy, military and civilian leaders under his command could make reactive decisions that advanced the president's goals. In the military, we call that commander's intent: When there's a decision to be made and you don't have exact guidance at that moment, you at least know overall what your boss wants.
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I live with romance in my brain. I'm a true-blue Cancerian like that.
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The single greatest world transformation would simply be the embrace of global reasonableness and pluralistic tolerance - the global embrace of egoic-rationality (on the way to centauric vision-logic).
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If the sheriff is cutting the program on drug testing, why are we approving a contract to show videos to inmates?
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Together we can do great things.
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Techniques such as genetic engineering, psychoactive drugs and electronic control of the brain make possible a transformation of the species into docile, fully-obedient, 'safe' organisms.
