Gerard K. O'Neill Quotes
Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization?
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I'm an international actor, but at the same time, I'm also a Bollywood actor, even though most of my career has been abroad. However, I've always kept in touch with Hindi cinema.
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Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.
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Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.
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My brothers and I always did improv stuff in our basement with our friends; we're super nerds, and that was our way of spending a Friday night.
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I'm going to scream this from the mountain top, there's no such thing as 'a curry.' There's six kazillion different kinds of curry. When someone asks how to make chicken curry, I have to ask 'Which one?'
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No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.
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El mal, débil, me agita; fuerte, me calma.
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In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.
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Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.
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When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him.
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When happy, be kind. When angry, be kind. When hopeful, be kind. When discouraged, be kind. When ever, be kind.
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For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.
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I love being pregnant. You can do whatever you want.
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Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.
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Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art....
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Scots they're either nice or they're horrid and these two are horrid. The Scots wont like that Eamon, thats bordering on racism. Its not racism its ethnic criticism Bill.
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That which a person works hardest on, he winds up having. That's one of the fundamentals of this universe.
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It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.
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Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.
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We Filipinos are the most promising people in the world. We have unheard-of-possibilities. There have never been a people similarly situated. Here we are in the Orient with our Oriental thoughts and sentiments, but living amid a civilization more Western than was ever known in The East. The Philippines is the only country where East meets West. The Filipino is a true cosmopolitan. From him the world may expect something new and distinctive.
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I have never had a NY resolution. While you wait each year to make a resolution you never commit to, I get it done everyday.
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Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization?
