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TED LIGETY I wanted kids to know that it's cool to be in a ski race in the morning and to go play in the te... TED LIGETY It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. ... TED LIGETY When I grew up, I had a lot of fun ski racing with my friends. We pushed each other, and this made i... TED LIGETY There are definitely perks to being a good ski racer. TED LIGETY About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh. TED LEVINE I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge. TED LEVINE Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed... TED LEVINE TED LANGE TED LANGE TED LANGE TED LANGE TED LANGE TED LANGE TED LANGE TED LANGE TED LANGE TED LANGE I have to reinvent myself. TED KULONGOSKI Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks. 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TED DEUTCH We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people. TED DEUTCH Social media companies must work closely with the U.S. government to ensure their platforms are not ... TED DEUTCH When enacted, health care reform provides generous tax credits to help people afford their health in... TED DEUTCH Kids from financially distressed households are twice as likely to have to repeat a grade and more t... TED DEUTCH We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating. TED DEUTCH Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fa... TED DEUTCH We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans. TED DEUTCH It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them h... TED DEUTCH Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness, and yet so many Americans ar... TED DEUTCH I have an open door to meet with my constituents and that I work hard to respond to their needs, and... TED DEUTCH We must not allow the Iranian regime to use the nation's vast energy resource as a financial pip... TED DEUTCH I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast... TED DEUTCH This OCCUPIED amendment, this constitutional amendment, would overturn Citizens United. It would mak... TED DEUTCH Individuals can stand up against genocide in Darfur and Iran's quest for nuclear weapons. TED DEUTCH Ultimately, the goal of sanctions is to ratchet up the economic pressure on the Iranians to such a l... TED DEUTCH As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide just... TED DEUTCH It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century wo... TED DEUTCH From the preemptive strike that destroyed Egypt's air force during the Six-Day War, to the darin... TED DEUTCH I wasn't a vegan when I came to Congress. It was a decision I made soon after I got here, and it... TED DEUTCH I believe we're stronger when we speak loudly and unapologetically for human rights; when we sta... TED DEUTCH For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discr... TED DEUTCH Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs ... TED DEUTCH It was sanctions that drove Iran to the negotiating table in the first place. TED DEUTCH There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again. TED DEMME The thing that's great about those guys at Miramax is the Weinstein brothers. They are the two f... TED DEMME That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produ... 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I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. 
I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science ... 
When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves. 
When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did. 
I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again u... 
I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction... 
I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought &... 
I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do 'Harry Potter' or anything like... 
I did some research on cryonics and cryogenics, but I kept it to a minimum because I didn't want... 
I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall ... 
I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; ... 
When I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein,' 'The Creeping Unknown,' '... 
When I die, I'm gonna leave my body to science fiction. 
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers deal... 
When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a seri... 
Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is ficti... 
It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction. 
I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it ... 
NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just mons... 
I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll ... 
When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction. 
I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our ... 
I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all. 
I can list on one hand the famous science fiction writers I never met. 
Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction ... 
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. 
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... 
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. 
I was a science fiction junkie for a long time. 
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irr... 
But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their ow... 
A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which ... 
I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I crave... 
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want... 
What we have seen of recent American action in the Pacific, the bombing of Tokyo and the engagements... 
Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor. 
If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not pe... 
Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice... 
There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary s... 
We write our own destiny; we become what we do. 
Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving y... 
I'm not cool enough to hang out with any rock stars. Jay-Z doesn't come over to my house. I ... 
I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo. 
I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosqu... 
I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richar... 
Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling. 
There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond... 
The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad. 
It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. 
My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left ho... 
I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my o... 
My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What th... 
Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get. 
We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick... 