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Paul Ryan is the gold standard for conservatism.


Sean Duffy
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I believe in the gold standard. I like solid lumps of things. You can always melt them down.


Suzy Parker
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Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.


Doris Lessing
The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency.
Yanis Varoufakis
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
Alan Greenspan
Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
Gary Ross
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In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown.


Ridley Scott
I think the Emmy obviously is very prestigious and is the gold standard obviously in terms of television. But the Oscars go beyond that. I believe children, when they're growing up, dream of holding that Oscar.
Brad Grey
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I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.
Alan Alda
Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or exploration completely, but we are profoundly ill adapted for going boldly into outer space.
Charles Stross
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I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.


Ridley Scott
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I'm a massive science fiction and fantasy geek.


Robert Kazinsky
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It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.


Frederik Pohl
What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.
Gardner Dozois
If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.
Karl Schroeder
Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.
Jean M. Auel
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I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.


Steven Spielberg
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Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.


Greg Bear
I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.
Joe Morton
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I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.


China Mieville