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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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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I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.
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Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because we're just a little bit funnier. In the same way, I think anybody can play music - in fact, I think everyone has music in them, but some of us can do it a little better.
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At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.
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A man of no religion, who dares use pain as a weapon, tainting it for mundane things.
