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- Nov 07, 2020
Things Quotes
The little word that covers everything.
"Things" is a catch-all, and the quotes collected here reflect that — a former mathematician recalling early academic interests, artists describing what inspires them, and honest admissions about not knowing what you want to become. For more on that last theme, see Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.
- Insects
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was so intrigued by insects and things that crawled or flew - I could spend hours by myself in a vacant lot.
- Hardest Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest thing is when things are not going so well and you have got to dig in and get results.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were only two things I knew in a Christian framework that I could do. One would be the pastor of a church, the other would be a missionary. I didn't particularly like snakes, so I decided I should probably be a pastor.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fighting is one of those things that gets tons of attention, far more than it deserves.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one is the starting what was first called jazz rock in 1967 when I started my first band, later became jazz fusion by the 1970s.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.
- Knowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 16 or 17 I knew I was gay, but knowing and accepting are two very different things.
- Nov 07, 2020