Kevin Bales Quotes
We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods
Quotes to Explore
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
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I try to be really conscious. I don't want to ever look back and regret not raising my kids and not being around.
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Most people sell stock to pay taxes, but I didn't want to sell any stock.
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Of course I always like going to bookstores, but at stores, you're mostly meeting kids who are already into reading.
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At 17, I wanted to be a rock star.
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We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods
