Damon Knight Quotes
You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.
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My style is all I have. When I go on stage, that's me in my comfort zone. It's not a costume. It's just me. And I want every woman to feel that way.
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For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
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I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.
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There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
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I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
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There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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Sometimes words are harder than blows.
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In closing, let me just thank God, on the floor of the House, for not turning away from us even though we seem to be turning away from Him.
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Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.
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I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.
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I never really thought it out. I just woke up one day, and I was involved in all these projects. They just seemed to involve animals.
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There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
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Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.
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A lot of foreign people say, when asking about eating habits, 'What is your guilty pleasure?' I have no guilt. Whatever I do, I enjoy and it's the point. I think if you start to feel guilty about it, that's a problem. So, no guilty pleasures. I have pleasure and no guilt at all.
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If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
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You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.
