Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes
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Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I literally don't think about Oscar.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
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I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.
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Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring.
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I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
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I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.
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Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy?
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Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.
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Sometimes I even cut myself to see how much it bleeds, it's like adrenaline: The pain is such a sudden rush for me!
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It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
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‘You’re one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It’s a great gift.’
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The fact that you can see a movie at home, it's great. You're making it for as many people to see it as possible. And that's nice.
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Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.
