D. J. MacHale Quotes
Mine would be, "We will stand together, he and I. One in victory, one in shame. Only then can I truly own the power of Halla. How sweet the moment of revelation will be, when he learns that he handed it to me." -SD the Pilgrims of Rayne
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
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If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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I trip over my legs all the time. I'll wave to somebody, look up, and end up eating pavement.
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I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.
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The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too happy. I knew they would not let me be happy.
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I like to have sleepovers.
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My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.
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We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.
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Indeed, no one does more injury in the church than he who acts perversely and yet has the name and order of sanctity.
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I had been walking in silence for so long,I had almost forgotten what my own voice sounded like.My knees were tired;my toes were beginning to ache.
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There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors.
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The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.
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Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
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Mine would be, "We will stand together, he and I. One in victory, one in shame. Only then can I truly own the power of Halla. How sweet the moment of revelation will be, when he learns that he handed it to me." -SD the Pilgrims of Rayne
