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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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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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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Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.
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Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
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I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making.
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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My successor, John Kerry, and President Obama got a deal that put a lid on Iran's nuclear program without firing a single shot. That's diplomacy. That's coalition-building. That's working with other nations.
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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.
