Arthur C. Clarke Quotes
Long ago, he had made that choice between work and life that can seldom be avoided at the highest levels of human endeavor … Any fool could shuffle genes, and most did. But whether or not history gave him credit, few men could have achieved what he had done - and was about to do.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
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I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Too clever is dumb.
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There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.
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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.
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I'm here with the cause, I'm holding the torchIn the corner of your room- can you hear me?And when you're dancing and laughing, and finally living,Hear my voice in your head and think of me kindly.
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Russell James asked me to shoot underwater. He tied my feet under the water. I don't know how many feet - maybe five, six meters. He tied me underwater and I had no air. Somebody had a tube, and they were giving me some oxygen, but I couldn't really see anything. Everything was blurry. I'm waiting for the oxygen - that was the craziest thing.
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Knowledge often spoils devotion.
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The cup of life is not so shallow That we have drained the best That all the wine at once we swallow And lees make all the rest.
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Long ago, he had made that choice between work and life that can seldom be avoided at the highest levels of human endeavor … Any fool could shuffle genes, and most did. But whether or not history gave him credit, few men could have achieved what he had done - and was about to do.
