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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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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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
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Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine Obama going home at night and writing sensitive, introspective journal entries about his meeting with John Boehner.
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Every film I've ever worked on, and that includes 'Braveheart' and 'Trainspotting,' I've always witnessed a director having a breakdown. Every director will have a day, without exception, where they just can't do it anymore, they don't know what to say to their cameraman, their cast. It's the sign of real, physical exhaustion.
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The beer tastes better when you win
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I began to write what I called 'rhythms' ie unrhymed pieces with no formal metrical scheme where the rhythm was created by a kind if inner chant... Later I was told I was writing 'free verse' or Vers libre.
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Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
