David Gemmell Quotes
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
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Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
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Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.
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When I go to shows, I'm really looking forward to hearing the songs I know. I don't like it when a band tries to expose me to new stuff.
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A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.
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That's my responsibility. Obviously we wanted to be much more productive than what we were in the playoffs. We always each year try and look real hard at everything, and that'll be one of the things we look real hard at is, offensively, how can we do a better job.
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In randori, one must search out the opponent's weaknesses and be ready to attack with all the resources at his disposal the moment the opportunity presents itself, without violating the rules of judo.
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I discovered several never-failing signs by which one might know when a man wished to take another wife. He would suddenly 'awaken to a sense of his duties'; he would have serious misgiving as to whether the Lord would pardon his neglect in not living up to his privileges; he would become very religious, and would attend to his meetings ... which seemed just then to be very numerous, and in various other ways he would show his anxiety to live up to his religion.
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A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.
