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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Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.
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We did this film in 13 days, mind you. And 13 days is not very long for a feature film. Nobody in their right mind would argue that. Nobody in their right mind would do that.
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I think high school's very difficult. You're figuring out your own power and your effect on other people. You look back and see how you spent so much energy on figuring out things with your parents or your peers.
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All information can be bought, my son, if you are willing to pay the price.
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I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.
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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
