C. J. Cherryh Quotes
Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.
Quotes to Explore
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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I'm vegetarian and stick to a strict health regime of brown rice, tofu, salads and soya milk. When I'm at home in Somerset, I buy almost everything in the local farmshops including Barleymow's in Chard. I always get organic - I like happy hens.
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I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.
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All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
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I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are probably the best team in the world in terms of individual players. But the team with the most gifted players do not always win.
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You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.
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Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.
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Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.
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There was nothing he could do unless he accepted what was real.
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Just as He had done with David, Samuel, and Joseph of the Old Testament, God took an innocent, unlearned boy, one still unsullied by the world and pliable to His divine will, and molded and shaped him into His chosen prophet.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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The German people have no idea of the extent to which they have to be gulled in order to be led.
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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.
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The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.
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Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.
