Alastair Reynolds Quotes
'How are the internal complications, anyway? Aren’t the other branches of government getting a little suspicious about all these machinations?''Let’s just say that one or two discreet assassinations may still have to be performed,' Khouri said.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.
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For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
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I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
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I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.
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They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.
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McLaren was a risky project because they were completely new, but we are one team - we win and we lose together.
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The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.
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Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.
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If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.
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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
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Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.
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'How are the internal complications, anyway? Aren’t the other branches of government getting a little suspicious about all these machinations?''Let’s just say that one or two discreet assassinations may still have to be performed,' Khouri said.
