Edward M. Lerner Quotes
I have to believe SF writers will continue to inspire the public to have faith in - to demand! - a future that is at least as big and bold as the past.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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I've been training quite hard.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
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There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.
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My stepdad always said, "If you're going to believe the good, you're going to believe the bad." I think that's really important.
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Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
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An honest man is in Hell when he is in debt.
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There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous.
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Sloan Gibson is doing a great job. We need to give him more power to terminate employees.
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I have to believe SF writers will continue to inspire the public to have faith in - to demand! - a future that is at least as big and bold as the past.
