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My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn't exist, because that's how we're going to deal with the world.

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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.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • May
  • Today
  • Science

• It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Time
  • Live
  • Present

• I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Unexpected

• A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • World
  • Japanese

• I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Children
  • Control
  • Taxes

• I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Long
  • She
  • Lost

• I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Book
  • Experiences
  • Sell

• I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Something
  • Without
  • Becoming

• I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Love
  • She
  • Night

• There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Up
  • Important
  • Play

• By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Country
  • Want

• The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Truth

• Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Self
  • Reputation
  • Ourselves

• I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Hate
  • Same
  • Sound

• I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.

  

  Navi Rawat
  • People
  • Think
  • Mistake

• I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Theater
  • Arena
  • Park

• Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Country
  • Want
  • Hunting

• Take your inspiration from wherever you find it, no matter how ridiculous.

  

  Roy H. Williams
  • Inspiration
  • Find
  • Take

• Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Experience
  • Wisdom
  • Savings

• The mess in the world is a strong driver because, at the end of the day, it's the increasing unacceptability of the divergences and rifts in the world economically, socially, politically, and culturally which lead everybody to say, 'We have to do something.'

  

  Peter Maurer
  • World
  • Strong

• Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.

  

  Jamie Zawinski
  • Running

• My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn't exist, because that's how we're going to deal with the world.

  

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