Clyde Tombaugh Quotes

I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises.

Clyde Tombaugh

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• Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

  

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• Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

  

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• There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.

  

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• Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

  

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• Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.

  

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• Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.

  

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• Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.

  

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• I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.

  

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• Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.

  

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• If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.

  

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• There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

  

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• The way to a man's heart is through his chest.

  

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• We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.

  

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• As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.

  

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• When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

  

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• There are signs jobs will be plentiful in the future, if we train and prepare for it. That means investing in technology, innovation, and, as much as Republicans will hate to hear this, renewable energy.

  

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• The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.

  

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• God bless Interlibrary Loan. I pay a lot of library fines. In the case of 'A Single Shard,' I was using books that hadn't been checked out in 30 years, so I didn't feel too bad.

  

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• There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.

  

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• A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, 'When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?' I think it's a great question. I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging.

  

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• I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises.

  

  Clyde Tombaugh
  • Library