David Gemmell Quotes
This enterprise was doomed, but we do what we can and do what we must. So a young farmer with wife and children decides to go home. Good! He shows a sense that you and I will never understand. They will sing songs about us, but he will ensure that there are people to sing them. He plants. We destroy.
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
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It can be frustrating when you're put in a category with others. Women do get lumped together in this reductive grouping, and you think, 'Gosh, that rarely happens with the boys.' I'm sure people don't say to Eddie Redmayne, 'How do you feel about Andrew Garfield?'
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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I always suggest that when you're going through cancer to find something in your day that makes you feel centered and that makes you feel good.
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In a nutshell though, it's just all about opening up to the people that really care about my career and really listening to everybody who is listening to me. It's just made me stronger, to really be able to open up that door and listen to everybody else's opinions.
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My family never owned a home. We leased.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.
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I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.
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I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.
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You have good days and bad days.
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My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones.
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.
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I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.
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I don't see the Hurricanes relocating, period. I think the Triangle is a terrific market.
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I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In jazz, it's a lot different.
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Passion is lifted from the earth itself by the muddy hands of the young; it travels along grass-stained sleeves to the heart. If we are going to save environmentalism and the environment, we must also save an endangered indicator species: the child in nature.
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You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
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The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.
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Sara Blair's Harlem Crossroads is an important addition to the body of literature that currently exists about Harlem. It brilliantly illuminates the complex relationship between photographic representation and race, and adds new insight into the ways in which this one black community has figured in both the critical and public imaginations. Harlem Crossroads is a tour de force.
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This enterprise was doomed, but we do what we can and do what we must. So a young farmer with wife and children decides to go home. Good! He shows a sense that you and I will never understand. They will sing songs about us, but he will ensure that there are people to sing them. He plants. We destroy.
