Pamela Dean Quotes
I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.
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I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.
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We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the filter is becoming very thin and very porous. The ratings race for TV and websites is incredibly fierce, and one of the ways of getting people to watch is through graphic violent images.
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.
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My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.
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I don't like to run. You will not see me running on a treadmill ever. Ever! I like boxing, though, so if I can go to the gym and box for 30 minutes, I will.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
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I definitely don't sit down every day and make a new song.
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Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.
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You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We realize how old we are, we realize we've been playing this game for a long time, but you know what? We're not done yet.
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I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.
