Alfred Bester Quotes
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
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There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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It's, I mean, for me, it's the same as training with my crewmembers. We share the same first part of the flight. We all go together. It's the most critical part of the flight, the ascent.
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People listen to The Beatles, but while they were muscially influential, they weren't culturally influential in quite the same way. You can go into the back of beyond in a little Indian village, and they will listen to Bob Marley. But they're not going to be listening to The Beatles or The Rolling Stones.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me.
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Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.
