David Gemmell Quotes
War. What was it about the prospect of some bloody enterprises that reduced men to the level of animals?
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.
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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Sleeping is one of the more private aspects of parenting; it happens in a quiet room, whereas eating is a more public aspect of parenting. Other people can see it and compare it to what their kids eat.
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
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I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration.
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To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.
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There's a better scientific consensus on this than on any issue I know - except maybe Newton's second law of dynamics...Man has reached the point where his impact on the climate can be as significant as nature's.
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Men would bless you or curse you; The curse, a protest against failure, The blessing, a hymn of the hunter Who comes back from the hills With provision for his mate.
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I'm pretty hard on myself. Every now and again I'll go on my IMDB or update my resume and I'm like, "man, I've done a lot of work."
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War. What was it about the prospect of some bloody enterprises that reduced men to the level of animals?
