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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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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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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People work hard.
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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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What Democrats haven't focused on are the kind of policies that would promote economic growth - such as making permanent the 2001/2003 tax cuts, opening up federal lands to more energy production, and reforming government to reduce its burden on business.
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We'll look after our hospitals. We'll look after our schools. We'll look after our infrastructure.
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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.
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I think dealing with mean girls is just a part of life. I never really took people like that too seriously.
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I think it's really important to have a life outside of this movie business and just be the best person you can be.
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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.
