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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AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
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I'd done a ton of movies here in Hollywood, and I realized that every movie I'd done was somebody's else's work and someone else's vision.
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Doing good for the community is something that should be a part of who you are. The more you get, the more you should give back.
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And it's kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I've used my own life as a literary device so much. I think people feel very comfortable reviewing the idea of me, as opposed to what I've actually written. I find that most of the time, when people write about one of my books, they're really just writing about what they think I may or may not represent, as sort of this abstract entity. Is that unfair? Not really. If I put myself in this position where I'm going to kind of weave elements of memoir into almost everything, well, I suppose that's going to happen.
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Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.
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You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.
