Arthur C. Clarke Quotes
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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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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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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I am not one of those people who has contempt for Hillary Clinton. I think she's served our nation. I think there are things that she's done that are very good.
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Mumbai is home to us. Medina was born in Munich because Roya's family lives in Germany and she had five sisters to help her while I was travelling for work.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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It had a profound impact on me as a human being, and I did a lot of growing within that, so that will always be a defining moment in my life, a defining time.
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A music video is so different to doing a movie.
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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
