Alastair Reynolds Quotes
It was a numbers game, not a guaranteed method of avoiding being killed, but Clavain had been a soldier long enough to know that this was, ultimately, what most combat situations boiled down to.
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The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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I say this all the time, but my hijab, it really is my crown, and it's something that I bring to the table. It's something that makes me unique. It shows the world who I truly am.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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I was born gay, just as I was born black.
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He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.
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I was never in an improv group. But when I went to school, we would do it all day long with friends, not knowing what it was called.
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Your No. 1 priority as a defender is to keep the ball out of the back of the net.
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Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll.
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It was a numbers game, not a guaranteed method of avoiding being killed, but Clavain had been a soldier long enough to know that this was, ultimately, what most combat situations boiled down to.
