Clifford D. Simak Quotes
Whatever doubt might rise, he knew that he was right. But the rightness was an intellectual rightness and the doubt emotional.
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How lucky am I?
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.
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The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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Mamas, don't let your sons grow up to be Cowboys... or Oilers.
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
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I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.
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Every human brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for the vibration of thought.
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Nearly all inmates are drawn from the ranks of the powerless and the poor. A child of privilege frequently receives the benefit of the doubt; a child of poverty seldom does.
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Whatever doubt might rise, he knew that he was right. But the rightness was an intellectual rightness and the doubt emotional.
