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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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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I don't eat bubble gum, but I like the smell.
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'But what am I to do?' cried the Prince.'What you feel you must,' said the Theel. 'That’s the only thing to do at any time.'
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Animals shouldn't suffer for the sake of beauty.
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For me, there is a real line between something being the worst thing in the world and the best thing in the world.
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I grew up with a lot of people who are famous now. I was friends with Hilary and Haley Duff. They are such lovely girls. I have watched their careers blossom, which I am really happy for. I grew up with Ashley Tisdale; we used to both live in Valencia, so we used to hang out back in the day.
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What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ and the chalice is the blood of Christ. This has been said very briefly, which may perhaps be sufficient for faith; yet faith does not desire instruction
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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.
