Dean Koontz Quotes
I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
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Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.
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There's a lot of garbage, and then there are those ones that just stand out so incredibly. You fight for those roles; you do everything in your power to get it.
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Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
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As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord.
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I'm one of the few people that I know that sings better than they did 20 years ago.
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Writing is something I want to explore. If I were to do it, I would want it to be not a book made by a YouTuber; I would really want to respect that craft of literature and just be an author.
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If you come across as boring or monotone, you're going to lose your audience.
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I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.
