Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes
Every time he makes plans for his future, he seems to fail. Every time he reaches forward, the world leans against him, pressing him down.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.
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A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
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Everything I do is for my parents, None of this matters without them. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be here... If it wasn't for them, if it wasn't for the structure and the backbone that I have, I wouldn't be able to mess up and keep coming back and sit in front of you as a world champion.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times.
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Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you're obviously very intelligent and good looking and all-around brilliant.
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We're not really brought up in a culture where we believe we're meant to be happy, that peace is our birthright. It's not what we're taught; quite the opposite, actually. With all the expectations and the negative stories going on in the world, we have a lot to overcome.
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Every time he makes plans for his future, he seems to fail. Every time he reaches forward, the world leans against him, pressing him down.
