Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

Others, one suspects, are afraid that the crossing of space, and above all contact with intelligent but nonhuman races, may destroy the foundations of their religious faith. They may be right, but in any event their attitude is one which does not bear logical examination - for a faith which cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

Arthur C. Clarke

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• One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Things
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• Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Women
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• You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • You
  • Football
  • Games

• Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Been
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• It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
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• The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Winning
  • Beauty
  • Greatest

• I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Want
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• My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Help

• I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Women
  • Know
  • Romantic

• Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Golf

• At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • People
  • Help
  • Spiritual

• Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Art
  • Business
  • Attention

• If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • American
  • Success

• I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost like CBS '60 Minutes,' but a Swedish version where we actually did travel quite a lot. After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Time
  • Why
  • Fun

• After the Pearl Harbor attacks, around 120,000 Japanese Americans were jailed in internment camps. If an attack on U.S. soil were perpetrated by people who were not white and Christian, we can be pretty damn sure that racists would have a field day.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
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• I was born in India - but never really lived there.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Never
  • Born
  • India

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Always
  • Process
  • Imitation

• The one person whom I would like to be is Meryl Streep. Even at her age, she sits alongside the younger heroines at the Oscars with her name in the nominee list, and others around her wonder whether they still stand a chance.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • She
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  • Wonder

• We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Work
  • Men
  • Live

• I don't think action alone is enough to sustain a film franchise. There are tons of action movies out there that come and go and people don't care about.

  

  James Wan
  • People
  • Action
  • Alone

• If guys practiced self-control, 'modesty' wouldn't be such a huge deal.

  

  Zach Hunter
  • Guy
  • Control
  • Self

• Others, one suspects, are afraid that the crossing of space, and above all contact with intelligent but nonhuman races, may destroy the foundations of their religious faith. They may be right, but in any event their attitude is one which does not bear logical examination - for a faith which cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • May
  • Truth
  • Faith