Clifford D. Simak Quotes
Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists...
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Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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It's totally viable to envisage a million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.
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I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.
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If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
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I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
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We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.
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I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
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Now, these men weren’t idiots. They were geniuses who paid a high price for their genius because the rest of their thinking was other-world. A genius is someone who travels to truth by an unexpected path. Unfortunately, unexpected paths lead to disaster in everyday life.
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America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.
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I've done routes where I've climbed 200 feet off the ground and just been, like, 'What am I doing?' I then just climbed back down and went home. Discretion is the better part of valor. Some days are just not your day. That's the big thing with free soloing: when to call it.
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There is no evidence that terrorists use Mexico to cross into the United States. There have been comments to that regard, but not one of those statements has contained hard evidence.
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Every time I'd get a critique or some redirection, I'd always just take it very personally. Now I have no problem with it.
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Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists...
