Clifford D. Simak Quotes
Individualists would have little use for a device which would make them understand one another, for they would not care whether they understood one another.
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My style is all I have. When I go on stage, that's me in my comfort zone. It's not a costume. It's just me. And I want every woman to feel that way.
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I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.
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We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.
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Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
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I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
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I am confident of doing well because I am enjoying my sport again.
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It is a general truth that students of language in every era try to colonize some or all of the other human sciences.
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I did no research on 'The Best Man.' That was something that came out from my own head.
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I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.
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So I don't blame Boies for the decision of the Court at all.
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Loyalty to a company, it's nonsense.
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What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.
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There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.
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And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters
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With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environmental activists, and indeed all those concerned about the complex, fragile systems on the sphere we inhabit. It has shaped debates about business, design, and our lifestyles.
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I've had teammates I didn't get along with, who hasn't? I've never had a teammate call me a bad guy, while he was my teammate, and if he did when I was gone what kind of teammate was he anyway?
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When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.
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Individualists would have little use for a device which would make them understand one another, for they would not care whether they understood one another.
