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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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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If you don't really have a dream, you can't really push yourself; you don't really know what the target is.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
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A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers.
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But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles.
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Most of my videos consist of fragments, one or two minutes long. They are haikus or sketches. I have thousands.
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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.
