Alastair Reynolds Quotes

'I’m not a bad man, Ilia. I’m just someone who knows exactly what needs to be done.''Like you said, always the most dangerous sort.'

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• Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

  

  Owen Feltham
  • Change
  • Perfect
  • Perfection

• It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Up
  • You
  • Down

• Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Job
  • Create
  • Relationships

• I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • War
  • Elements
  • Diplomacy

• It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Death
  • Knowledge
  • Smoking

• I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Rock
  • Living
  • Complain

• If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • May
  • New
  • Back

• People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Time
  • Crazy

• As long as I have a heartbeat, I'm fine. So I just do what I love, and I do it the best that I can. And if it all goes away, I'll just start over.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Long
  • Love
  • Best

• My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • She
  • Dad
  • Emotional

• One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Hand
  • Dreams
  • Bed

• I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Trust

• The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Issue

• Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • People
  • You
  • Company

• California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Different
  • House
  • Style

• You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Power
  • You
  • Powerful

• You know what my job is? I'm Mrs. Garrett from 'Facts of Life.'

  

  Jennifer Konner
  • Life
  • Job

• A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.

  

  Clive Thompson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Done

• I think movies moving forward are going to become long-form storytelling.

  

  Joe Russo
  • Long
  • Moving

• Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.

  

  Keith Jarrett
  • Music

• 'I’m not a bad man, Ilia. I’m just someone who knows exactly what needs to be done.''Like you said, always the most dangerous sort.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
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