Alfred Bester Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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Young people are constantly absorbing - through media, textbooks, and policy - the myths of American exceptionalism; for black children, this means that what they are taught in class does not match the world that they navigate daily.
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Being successful is something that's sometimes hard to deal with.
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I actually have a weird tendency to say things to people that they were just about to say. I always freak my best friend out with that. So I might have a bit of psychic power.
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It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.
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Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma.
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Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.
