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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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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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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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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The fun is getting to wear multiple disguises and getting to explore multiple personalities and bring them to life. So a movie career definitely affords me that.
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A neighbor is something that belongs to the stable world of home life, the thing that lives next door to you.
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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?
