Arthur C. Clarke Quotes
We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.
Quotes to Explore
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I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?
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Prayer is man's greatest power!
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.
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No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.
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In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
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The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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A science of all these possible kinds of space [the higher dimensional ones] would undoubtedly be the highest enterprise which a finite understanding could undertake in the field of geometry... If it is possible that there could be regions with other dimensions, it is very likely that God has somewhere brought them into being.
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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective.
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We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.
