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A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.
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So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a man holding up a card reading LAUGHTER to a studio audience.
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I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through a series of divine things that I had no control over and had no idea were going to happen, it got in the movie, and that changed everything.
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Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
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Deep, persistent problems are never solved by accident; they are solved only by people who are obsessed with them and set out to solve them directly.
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The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
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My wife really pushed me in that direction, to write my own songs and start singing, so I think having the whole family thing is such a huge thing.
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The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love.†from “Memoriam
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Generally, if you look at present-day trends, you can predict the future. Very few people do that, because I've been told that only 3 to 5 percent of people are aware of being a part of history; the overwhelming majority think things will always be the way they are now. When Stalin was alive, most people could not imagine that he would ever die. Same under Brezhnev.
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So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.
