David Gemmell Quotes
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now.
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I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
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Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that looked like the Michelin Man.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.
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We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet.
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I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
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My confidence comes from knowing I do the right things in my life. I do the right things in the gym. I do the right things all together.
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I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.
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I know the Hall of Fame is the more sought-after thing. But I'm getting a bigger charge out of my uniform number being put away. Everything I worked hard for and wished for came true.
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Love is higher than the Highest. Love is greater than the Greatest. Yea, it is in a certain sense greater than God; while yet, in the highest sense of all, God is Love, and Love is God. Love being the highest principle is the virtue of all virtues; from whence they flow forth.
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Campuses can never punish or censor the expression of ideas, however offensive, because otherwise they cannot perform their function of promoting inquiry, discovery, and the dissemination of new knowledge.
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Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.
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Steve Jobs once asked me for some advice about retail, but I said, 'I am not sure at all we are in the same business.'
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... a man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent.
