Clifford D. Simak Quotes
Could it be, he wondered, that the goldenness was the Hazers' life force and that they wore it like a cloak, as a sort of over-all disguise? Did they wear that life force on the outside of them while all other creatures wore it on the inside?
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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'Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons' is a kind of novel in verse about the arc of an urban lesbian love affair - and I suppose there is a certain amount of voyeurism in the consumption of fiction! The 'Sancerre' poems here are more contemplative and about the relationship of the individual to local and wider histories.
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If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.
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I rarely watch TV but I guess I'd watch the weather report since I fly so much.
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Could it be, he wondered, that the goldenness was the Hazers' life force and that they wore it like a cloak, as a sort of over-all disguise? Did they wear that life force on the outside of them while all other creatures wore it on the inside?
