Arthur C. Clarke Quotes
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Being a conservative in Hollywood is like walking into a shooting range with a bull's-eye attached to your body. There are more of us than you would believe, but if you want to keep working, you feel like you have to keep quiet.
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Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
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After practice, I would have to go back to the dorm and take a nap.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone.
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Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.
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Before I had Toma, I was one of those people who had no interest in other people's kids. I was. 'Don't hand me that baby!'
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When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.
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The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
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Investment in training is a huge necessity for knowledge-based corporations.
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I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.
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Please don't erase my race because I'm white-passing. There is literally nothing I can do about my complexion.
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I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - but I had to learn how to write in a different way to write sequential art for a graphic novel. It's been an interesting transition.
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The Obama administration, like those before it, promotes a disturbingly narrow interpretation of the Fourth Amendment, misapplying the facts of old analog cases to a radically different digital world.
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I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.
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Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
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The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?
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We offer great services to our customers, but how we deliver those services, how we personalize them to our customers, is what leaves a lasting impression. I'd love to attribute it all to our training, but it's the level of employee we hire, those who are friendly and have great personalities. That's the critical part of the whole process.
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The smouldering eroticism of great European actresses like Jeanne Moreau demonstrated to my generations women's archetypal mystery and glamour, completely missing from the totalitarian world-view of the misogynist Foucault. For me, the big French D is not Derrida, but Deneuve.
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When I think of competition it's like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids.
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I used to know all the lyrics to all the songs from 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
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Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
