Arthur C. Clarke Quotes
Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.
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For makeup, a bit of blusher - what you call bronzer - a bit of an eye, and an eyelash curler.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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My father is very dry and very quick-witted, and my mother is very silly. It was the perfect combination because I got an education in physical and verbal comedy.
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I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.
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Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.
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Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
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If you can give away free music, you can give away free electricity, free water. Those tiny jabs at a larger infrastructure are what make revolutions.
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It is possible for you to get a grip on the thing that used to have a grip on you. And instead of it controlling you - you are now controlling it.
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Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a novel that I have read over and over and over again. Tess is a pure child who has an inner glow none of the others in the book possess. They reject her because she is different, and they try in every possible manner to destroy her, because they are jealous. It is an extraordinary love story.
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Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well.
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I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.
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Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
