Dean Koontz Quotes
My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.
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I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
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People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.
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I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done while sitting in coffee-stained pajamas in front of a computer rather than prowling around a huge stage in sweaty leather pants, so I have to get my kicks vicariously.
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We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
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If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
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My mum was a librarian, and she brought home a lot of interesting books, and we just read and read. I suppose I didn't really think I could be a writer myself until I was working in editing in my 20s and discovered that actually, the books that came in were not very much like published books.
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Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.
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One cannot forsake the security of Israelis.
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My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.
