Dean Koontz Quotes
I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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I'm always trying to make myself laugh. I'm the most enthusiastic audience I'm likely to find, so if it doesn't make me smile then it probably won't work on you. The jokes that only make me shrug get cut.
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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Why should Bollywood accept me? I should accept Bollywood. I don't care if Bollywood has accepted me. I don't seek acceptance. I don't need to live up to anybody's expectations.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
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If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.
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Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on.
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Preferring healthful foods is a skill, and skills take practice and perseverance to develop.
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No social co-operation under the division of labour is possible when some people or unions of people are granted the right to prevent by violence and the threat of violence other people from working. When enforced by violence, a strike in vital branches of production or a general strike are tantamount to a revolutionary destruction of society.
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Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The?
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When a president makes life and death decisions, he should draw strength and wisdom from broad and deep experience with the reasons for and the risks of committing our children to our defense. For no matter how many others are involved in the decision, the president is a lonely man in a dark room when the casualty reports come in.
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I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.
