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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The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.
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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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Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'Money,' I tell them, 'is no guarantee of taste, and an overstuffed wardrobe is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel.'
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Unless you have experienced it, it's difficult to describe the virulence of the Twitter storms that were unleashed on Trump skeptics.
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Go ahead and have the Kit Kat at the movies. If you don't satisfy an urge sometimes, you often substitute less-satisfying things and end up eating more.
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You can't live for a moment that may not happen. You need to live in the moment.
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Back in college, I remember shooting stupid videos with my friends. It would be us going around town in capes pretending we were superheroes.
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To live without evil belongs only to the gods.
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This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.
