Dan Simmons Quotes
Each of them was intimately aware of the procedure for electing a pope-not only of the antiquated mechanisms, of course, but of the politicking, pressuring, deal-making, bluffing, and outright blackmail that had often accompanied the process over the centuries.Dan Simmons
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I loved Alessandra Torre's 'Black Lies.'
Zara Cox -
Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
Taylor Hackford -
Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
Xenophon -
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
Daley Thompson -
I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.
Victor Mature
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
Tea Obreht -
'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is, conservation alone will do little to save our planet.
Naveen Jain -
I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.
Jack Dee -
I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
Carly Fiorina -
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
Manuel Puig -
I always have stress.
Takashi Murakami
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I was so shy when I was younger. When I first went to Liverpool I didn't say a word for a year.
Ian Rush -
Music is such a healing thing, no matter who you are.
Kate Voegele -
I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to.
Camryn Manheim -
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
Alexis de Tocqueville -
I was sleep-deprived, and I misspoke.
Hillary Clinton -
When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.
Ambrose Bierce
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If we do not share our stories and shine a light on inequities, things will not change.
Ellen Pao -
I learned a lot just watching people perform.
Bill Hader -
The Tea Party folks may be sincere, loyal citizens, but their notions about how the economy works are exactly that: mere notions. Their core notion is that government needs to do nothing more than get out of the way of business in order for the economy to boom and bloom.
David Horsey -
The Department of Education's refusal to oversee and hold for-profit schools accountable is a government-made disaster, and American students and taxpayers should not have to pay for it.
Lisa Madigan -
The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening.
Yevgeny Zamyatin -
Each of them was intimately aware of the procedure for electing a pope-not only of the antiquated mechanisms, of course, but of the politicking, pressuring, deal-making, bluffing, and outright blackmail that had often accompanied the process over the centuries.
Dan Simmons