"Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future."

-- Hugo Gernsback

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“I like the really human sides of people. To meet them and see that theyre complicated and weird or shy or any of those things sort of makes it even better to know that they can rise above that and make something great.”

Source : "Elizabeth Peyton" by Jarvis Cocker, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 26, 2008.
“I'd like to have two armies: one for display with lovely guns, tanks, little soldiers, staffs, distinguished and doddering generals, and dear little regimental officers who would be deeply concerned over their general's bowel movements or their colonel's piles, an army that would be shown for a modest fee on every fairground in the country.”
“Heroism isn't a one time thing: Live Heroically.”
“May the same wonderworking Deity, who long since delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors and planted them in the promised land, whose Providential agency has lately been conspicuous in establishing these United States as an independent nation, still continue to water them with the dews of Heaven and to make the inhabitants of every denomination participate in the temporal and spiritual blessings of that people whose God is Jehovah.”
“I didn't make that much money... Once I joined Bruce (Springsteen), I took a huge pay cut.”
“No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.”
“After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.”
“Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.”

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