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Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases. ↗

— David Brin

#berlin #berlin wall #cases #failures #fall

We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it? ↗

— David Brin

#does #elephant #enough #getting #heartbeats

The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#away #brando #directions #enough #get

Basically he never went to work and didn't have a job. Of course I thought he did. I thought he was on the phone doing business deals instead of borrowing money from people. ↗

— Christie Brinkley

#borrowing #business #course #deals #did

It's all right buying all these good players but they've got to gel, and that takes time. ↗

— Eric Bristow

#gel #good #got #players #right

I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#expressed #i #opinion #through #word

The Crafty Cockney had a picture of the owner dressed up as a copper, so I brought it home, wore it on TV and the name just stuck. ↗

— Eric Bristow

#cockney #copper #crafty #dressed #had

At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#did #elsewhere #find #half #hands

I started out as a business manager for a national hotel chain based in Oklahoma. I got frustrated with what was happening in the state capital - the high cost of doing business and a lack of educated workers. ↗

— Mary Fallin

#business #capital #chain #cost #doing

I thought I could make a difference, so I ran for office. ↗

— Mary Fallin

#difference #i #make #make a difference #office