Elizabeth Bear Quotes
I wondered who lonely women paid to listen. As with so much, it seemed as if the world had a solution for the one but not the other.
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I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
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My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.
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Neither the United States nor Israel has the capacity to impose a unilateral solution in the Middle East.
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Sanctions did indeed help to bring Iran to the negotiating table. But sanctions did not stop the advance of Iran's nuclear program. Negotiations have done that, and it is in our interest not to deny ourselves the chance to achieve a long-term, comprehensive solution that would deny Iran a nuclear weapon.
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The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become addicted. Any attempt towards a rational solution to real problems is denounced by chauvinists on both sides.
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My stance has always been that my issue compared to everything else going on in the world is really, really small. Once you realize that, you can get a lot more out of being a part of the solution.
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Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.
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All personal achievement starts within the mind of the individual-knowing your problem is the first step in finding the solution.
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Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for WHAT THEY DO WITH THAT WHICH THEY KNOW.
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Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn.
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And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.
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If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.
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The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.
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The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind.
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A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile. One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die.
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No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts.
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I like making money like anybody else, and I'm paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.
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There will be killing till the score is paid.
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In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist. I call it the law of the instrument, and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled.
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We are not going to abandon Iraq.
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If you're just creative, you'll always have to rely on technical people. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable.
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The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.
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When I moved to New York, I feel like a lot of things widened within my perspective and as I spend some time here - as everyone does when they're that age or a young person - [you] figure out your own ideals or figure out the way you fit into society a little bit more than you did before.
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I wondered who lonely women paid to listen. As with so much, it seemed as if the world had a solution for the one but not the other.
