David Gemmell Quotes
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I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.
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Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
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Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.
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Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.
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Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.
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While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.
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The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.
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I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.
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My character on 'Orange is the New Black' is not one that requires being absolutely shredded with 5% body fat. But I wouldn't be opposed to doing that for a role one day.
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This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.
