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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Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.
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I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not just sitting back waiting for something to happen.
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Having a giant beard really distracts people from noticing you're barely keeping it together emotionally.
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Where the heart is full of kindness which seeks no injury to another, either in act or thought or wish, this full love creates an atmosphere of harmony, whose benign power touches with healing all who come within its influence. Peace in the heart radiates peace to other hearts, even more surely than contention breeds contention.
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'Up in the Air' may be a glossy production sprinkled with laughter and sex, but it captures the distinctive topography of our Great Recession as vividly as a far more dour Hollywood product of 70 years ago, 'The Grapes of Wrath,' did the vastly different landscape of the Great Depression.
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You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.
