Dean Koontz Quotes
How can you hope to win against goddamn time travelers? It's like playing blackjack when the dealer is God. … Come to think of it, all of life is a blackjack game with God as the dealer, isn't it? So this is no worse.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
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Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.
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Yashpal, writing in the nineteen-fifties, sought to indict this culture of men, Hindus and Muslims alike, who value their freedom and power over the rights and lives of women.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
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Even if we fail, we are still gaining life experience. The worst thing that could happen is that we come out smarter and more prepared for our next challenge.
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There is a loud cry in these days for clues that shall guide the plain man through the vast bewildering labyrinth of printed volumes.
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I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
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Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.
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How can you hope to win against goddamn time travelers? It's like playing blackjack when the dealer is God. … Come to think of it, all of life is a blackjack game with God as the dealer, isn't it? So this is no worse.
