L. Neil Smith Quotes
We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I was physically abused and I retaliated.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.
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You fight technology with technology, so you have to stay one step ahead of the criminal. It's very much a chess game - they make a move, you have to make a move.
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We realize that if we live in a world that depends totally on CBS.com, we'd be dead.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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At first, teaching was more or less a straightforward way of making a living and having access to institutional resources while writing - aka libraries. And that was not inconsiderable. But it didn't in any way touch the writing. Maybe it would push the writing aside sometimes, but mostly it was fine.
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In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.
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We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.
