Clifford D. Simak Quotes
The old and the young, he thought. The old, who do not care; the young, who do not think.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
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We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.
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I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
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When I was younger, of course I had people act inappropriately to me. I've had certain directors yell at me. But I didn't stand for it, and I didn't let it go far enough for it to be in any way abusive to me.
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The more you play against teams and defenders, the more you get to know them. You know if they are more nervous; you know, on the pitch, people are different. I try to adapt to their character.
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Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.
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Most people who go to Rajasthan go to Udaipur, Jodhpur or Jaipur.
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Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.
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MAC Cosmetics is incredible for lips; I always wear it.
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Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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Small creatures die because larger creatures are hungry. How superior to this human confusion of greed and creed, blood and fire.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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I love meeting fans. The people who are fans of my books are really smart and dedicated, because some independent comics are hard to get. I will drive all the way to Pittsburgh or Detroit to put it in their hands.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.
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Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.
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It need not discourage us if we are full of doubts. Healthy questions keep faith dynamic. In fact, unless we start with doubts we cannot have a deep-rooted faith. One who believes lightly and unthinkingly has not much of a belief. One who has a faith which is not to be shaken has won it through blood and tears-has worked his or her way from doubt to truth as one who reaches a clearing through a thicket of brambles and thorns.
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The old and the young, he thought. The old, who do not care; the young, who do not think.
