Clifford D. Simak Quotes
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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I don't like attacking.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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Midi is my hobby.
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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There's a lot of creativity in the industry, but I don't necessarily think that the most creative DJs or producers are always the biggest ones.
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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Low-end disruption occurs when the rate at which products improve exceeds the rate at which customers can adopt the new performance.
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Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.
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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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I have a great desire to serve humanity without ever actually getting off my chair.
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I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people. Neither is anyone I have ever cared deeply about.
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'They’re just ordinary people,' Nancy said. 'You can’t expect too much of them.'
