Owen King Quotes
Everyday life is pretty funny and pretty ridiculous and occasionally really great, though not all the time, and that's all part of it.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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When you speak directly at things and don't say you're going to try to do something or that you hope to do something, the universe will work with you. Think about it this way - a boomerang goes out and comes back to you if you throw it. If you throw it out at the universe, it will come back down to you on Earth.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.
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I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
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Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.
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Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.
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For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.
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I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.
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I can't imagine here would be a Chinese Gorbachev. But the party will gradually open up. For instance, it has already set a time limit for political reforms in Hong Kong. And in four years time, there won't be a strongman to name the General Secretary at the party congress. That means that the various factions will have to develop better rules for naming their leader. But there won't be a timeline for political reform.
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The Christian always swears a bloody oath that he will never do it again. The civilized man simply resolves to be a bit more careful next time.
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Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers. Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren't our audience - it's the critical thinkers we love.
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Everyday life is pretty funny and pretty ridiculous and occasionally really great, though not all the time, and that's all part of it.
