"It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction……" — Greg Bear
"It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary stuff."
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16 Quotes by Greg Bear
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Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they…
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Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual…
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When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what…
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Welcome to the truth of our world-a massive seed shot out to the stars, filled with deadly children. A seed…
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All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a…
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Having one's eyes opened doesn't make one grateful.
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Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
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The price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political…
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It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with…
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Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not…
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For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out…
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Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep…
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More Extraordinary Quotes
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Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
— Lance Armstrong
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
— Julian Assange
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But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such…
— Rowan Atkinson
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I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens,…
— David Attenborough
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It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us',…
— David Attenborough
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The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you…
— David Attenborough
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It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because…
— David Bailey
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Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.
— Martha Beck
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Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.
— Carol Bellamy
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A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's…
— Andrea Bocelli
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A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks…
— Wade Boggs
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