Alastair Reynolds Quotes

Maps had never really been his thing, even during his days under Scorpio in Chasm City. There, it had hardly mattered. Blood’s motto had always been that if you needed a map to find your way around a neighbourhood, you were already in trouble.

Alastair Reynolds

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• Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.

  

  Jack Horner
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• There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

  

  Ovid
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• Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Knowledge
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• How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.

  

  Ted Danson
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• I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.

  

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• You're either ghetto or you're not.

  

  Vince Staples
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• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
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• My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.

  

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• The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.

  

  Maelle Gavet
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  • Company

• I want to have an impact on my son.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Country
  • Character
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• Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
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• As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

  

  Talulah Riley
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• You'd think skiing wouldn't be strenuous - all you have to do, after all, is start at the top and let gravity pull you to the dessert bar in the lodge. But at those elevations, you'll find about as much oxygen as you'll find kindness from your children. It's like spending six hours holding your breath.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Children
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  • Skiing

• I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.

  

  Parker Young
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• Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• The Qur'an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth.

  

  Said Nursi
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• I have great respect for Jaypee Greens as a company that has produced a truly world class, 24-carat, championship golf course. I am happy to be associated with a company with such outstanding qualities.

  

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• I definitely think New York is a very, very vibrant, wonderful city, but I certainly, of course, can't help but miss a lot of the stuff that's no longer there.

  

  Jonathan Levine
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• We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'

  

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• My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • May
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• Go where you add value. Don't look for places where you're just like everybody else.

  

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• Leadership is about change... The best way to get people to venture into unknown terrain is to make it desirable by taking them there in their imaginations.

  

  Noel Tichy
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• Maps had never really been his thing, even during his days under Scorpio in Chasm City. There, it had hardly mattered. Blood’s motto had always been that if you needed a map to find your way around a neighbourhood, you were already in trouble.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • City