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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I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.
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For the last eight years, American policy toward Iraq has been based on the direct threat Saddam poses to international security. That threat is clear. Saddam's history of aggression leaves little doubt that he would resume his drive for regional domination and his quest for weapons of mass destruction if he had the chance.
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If there is one thing to do, it is to do introspective soul searching to find your passion.
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You can recognise when a film-maker really, really cares about what they're doing.
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I think we are at our best when we work with our natural eruptions, use them as fuel for the fire.
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Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
