David Gemmell Quotes
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'
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I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.
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My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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I had never heard much about Nashville before coming out here, and that's why it's so surprising, because I'm the biggest enthusiast on the city of Nashville now. I'm looking for a place out here to live.
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The fight scenes are pretty easy and come pretty naturally for me, to be honest.
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We get 150 notices a week for seminars.
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People like Mr Hitchens are ready to fight to the last drop of other people's blood, and it's utterly and completely contemptible.
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For the lion to to prosper the deer must die. All the world is combat.
