Dean Koontz Quotes
He considered himself to be a thoroughly useless man, taking up space in a world to which he contributed nothing - but he did have a talent for baking… The gas oven might blow up in his face, at last bringing him peace, but if it didn't, he would at least have cookies for Agnes.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.
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I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually, I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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I wanted to be ballerina, be in a band, then in drama.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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You love for a quarterback to sometimes make the decision as the rush is coming and make the decision as the play, as opposed to where that computer is hitting it fast and he's knowing where to go with the ball at the right time.
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I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
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I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.
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Born in Kansas City, Missouri, and knowing nothing about Picasso, I had the audacity to knock on his door, became his friend, and took thousands of photographs, of him, his studios, his life and his friends.
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I'll tell you what war is about, you've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting.
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Well, I'm not going to be singing about lollipops because I no longer relate to lollipops.
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Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.
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He considered himself to be a thoroughly useless man, taking up space in a world to which he contributed nothing - but he did have a talent for baking… The gas oven might blow up in his face, at last bringing him peace, but if it didn't, he would at least have cookies for Agnes.
