Aaron Allston Quotes
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The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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Life is like an analogy.
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Where can I get some tat? I'd like to trade it in.
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The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
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The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
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I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
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Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.
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Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
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When all else fails, complicate matters.
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Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
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I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.
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This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow.
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I marked their location in case Kell wanted to blow them up or something.” “I don’t have to blow up everything I see. I just like to.
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There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.
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If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?
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Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadron’s mission." "We don’t mind running. Even when we don’t have to.
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I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson
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At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface." "Crash." "Quite slowly." Face & Luke
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Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want." "We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to." "Thanks." Wedge & Tycho