Clifford D. Simak Quotes
If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.
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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
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If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.
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After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.
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The literature of former days is like watching a fire from across the water; in present-day literature, the author himself is being scorched by the fire and he is bound to feel it deeply, and when he begins to feel it deeply, he is bound to take part in the social struggle.
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We begin again to structure the primordial feelings...from which 3000 years of literacy divorced us. We begin again to live a myth. (p. 17)
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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There will always be excuses, arguments, and questions of timing when moving on difficult and controversial issues.
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My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.
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If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.
