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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One does not study for a goal. One sings because one can't help it! The 'goal' nine times out of ten is a mere accident.
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A sympathetic parent might see the spark of consciousness in a baby's large eyes and eagerly accept the popular claim that babies are wonderful learners, but it is hard to avoid the impression that they begin as ignorant as bread loaves.
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I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.
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You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.
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Creativity is the process of sensing problems or gaps in information, then identifying the difficulties and seeking solutions through trial and error or through forming hypotheses.
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The old and the young, he thought. The old, who do not care; the young, who do not think.
