David Eddings Quotes
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
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A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
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What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call 'field' consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe. Just by looking at our planet on the way back, I saw or felt a field consciousness state.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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I grew up loving musicals. My mom had records of original cast recordings, and one of them was 'She Loves Me.' I wore that thing out singing along to Barbara Cook when I was eight years old.
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I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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I may not be perfect, but I'm trying.
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Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.
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In my opinion, you start messing with what this country was founded on, and our baseline is what we call it, it opens up too many - too many doors. You start messing with that, people can say religion kills people. So, let's start messing with that.
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I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.
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If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.
