Florence King Quotes
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I love working the legislative process.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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I don't think the Republicans care much about minorities.
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
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I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.
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Particular nuisances (are) smoke, sewage odours, dust and similar aerosols, and vibrations.
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The best revenge in the world is success.
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I've never met an artist whose spirit didn't want to fly.
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Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
