Aliette de Bodard Quotes
A man of no religion, who dares use pain as a weapon, tainting it for mundane things.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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When we read about reading, we get to share an experience that is usually kept private. Incisive descriptions of reading help us to understand what is going on when our eyes move across words on the page.
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The first act of insight is throw away the labels.
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How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
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Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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A man of no religion, who dares use pain as a weapon, tainting it for mundane things.
