David Weber Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
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I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
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We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.
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Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!
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I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that.
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I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.
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I do know plenty of atheists, agnostics and skeptics who have become Christians through the years. In fact, several of my friends were once strong atheists but are now committed followers of Jesus.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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Nothing is more powerful than the black church experience. A good choir and a good sermon in the black church, it's pretty hard not to be move and be transported.
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For me, the exhausting thing about touring is the sitting around, which is why working on my concert music is really great - and also seeing concerts and seeing friends and, whenever possible, getting out to see a museum.
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You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture.
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My duty is not affected by what others may or may not do to discharge their own.
