Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.
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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.
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I'm a father and I'm a husband and I care about what's happening on our streets.
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He who frames the question wins the debate.
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Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.
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My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?
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As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I've never been afraid of hurting myself or a little physical discomfort.
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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
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We are very focused on the fact that people do not have a paycheck at this point. We want to get money into their pockets so they can make their own decisions on what they want to do.
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What the Muslims do to their own children is worse than Hitler.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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When I write, I don't like to be around any humans.
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If you bargain when they squeeze your balls, they will only squeeze again.
