Alfred Bester Quotes
'Damn you!' Dagenham raged, 'Don’t you realize that you can’t trust people? They don’t know enough for their own good.''Then let them learn or die. We’re all in this together. Let’s live or die together.'
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I like things simple.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
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The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
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In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
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There are very religious people who write comics and who love comics.
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I've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.
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What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?
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In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.
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I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.
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Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.
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Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
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Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.
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First off, it's wonderful how much people are supporting me and felt I should have stayed in the competition.
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Millennials don't believe that government is the most effective in solving problems, and that lack of faith in big government is an opportunity for Republicans to win over millennials.
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'Damn you!' Dagenham raged, 'Don’t you realize that you can’t trust people? They don’t know enough for their own good.''Then let them learn or die. We’re all in this together. Let’s live or die together.'
