Arthur C. Clarke Quotes
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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As long as you believe in Him, no matter what happens in your life, understand that it's all for a purpose.
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I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
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There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe.
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Human nature was all about shifting blame...and responsibility. How else could you explain concentration camps and genocide and all the awful things people did to each other every day? They just carried on life and pretended like the evil didn't exist, as long as it was happening out of their direct view.
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I’d like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over.
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Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
