Arthur C. Clarke Quotes
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If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.
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If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
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More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.
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I don't know anything about music.
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I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.
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Before you start a business, careful planning is in order to obtain to where you ought to be. The biggest part is to ensure that, once you might have created your own plan, that you simply take motion. Without motion, you are unable to succeed.
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It would be difficult Bland thought, to forget Hercule Poirot, and this not entirely for complimentary reasons.
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My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with.
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I think we do live in a very specialized society, where once you think about somebody as one thing, it's hard to change that. But I do a lot of things. I act, I write, I sing.
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I am not an expert on Chinese science fiction. I probably know more than anyone else in the West, but that doesn't actually mean I am an expert.
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Clarke's Fourth Law: For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
