Alastair Reynolds Quotes
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What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists.
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It's fascinating to see actors who do voiceovers every day.
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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You can think what you like of Madonna - about her political choices and her PR - but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential.
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I'm a jeans fanatic. It's ridiculous how many jeans I have.
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The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.
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It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
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When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.
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Obviously, I'm not a singer. I don't consider myself a singer.
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How can you be inspired by Cameron and Miliband? These guys are just drabness personified.
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Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
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Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.
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'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.
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My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!'
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I hope I can be as good of a father to my son as my dad was to me.
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I'm very much a fan of having something tactile you can hold.
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The best time to stop a fight is before it starts. The best vitamin for developing friends is B1. The best way to destroy an enemy in to make him a friend.
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If you're afraid of inflation, I think - and if you can bring yourself to have a long horizon - and when I say long, I mean ten to 20 years, not the usual ten to 20 weeks - that locking up resources in the ground is a terrific idea.
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Obviously I've spent most of my working life with men and they have this way of operating which seems a bit alien to me.
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I got worries by the ton, getting cancer's only one. Over taxed and alimonied, tired of eating fried baloney.
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When we were attacked on Sept. 11, we knew the main reason for the attack was that Islamists hated our way of life, our virtues, our freedoms. What we never imagined was that the free press - an institution at the heart of those virtues and freedoms - would be among the first to surrender.
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'Don’t you agree with me?''On some distant theoretical level, just possibly.'
