Arthur C. Clarke Quotes
Meanwhile, among all its countless other effects upon human culture, Starglider had brought to its climax a process that was already well under way. It had put an end to the billions of the words of pious gibberish with which apparently intelligent men had addled their minds for centuries.
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen.
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I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
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Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
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All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
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The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800 words about something they cared about. I got eight or nine articles and put them together. It was no frills, black and white, no graphics. I printed them out and just dumped piles around D.C.
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Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence.
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People expect me to be stupid. I'm not saying I'm Stephen Fry, but it is amazing the perception people have.
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Meanwhile, among all its countless other effects upon human culture, Starglider had brought to its climax a process that was already well under way. It had put an end to the billions of the words of pious gibberish with which apparently intelligent men had addled their minds for centuries.
