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"Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt."
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"It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail."
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"It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads."
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"I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do."
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"I'm as radical as libertarians come."
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"I'm going to be looking forward, asked to be judged on my record, not taken back as has been the - in a sense, the tendency throughout politics in Northern Ireland, is to always look back, always look at what was said a long time ago, instead of looking forward."
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"Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits."
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"Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia."
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"Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth."
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"Politics is compromise."
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"In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural."
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"My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl."
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"Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt."
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"I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now."
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"Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians."
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"I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus."
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"Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work."
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"When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking."
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"When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back."
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"The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies."
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"So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians."
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