Duane Chapman Quotes
It's just like being a father; you got to show them love and you got to show them the path. I don't like this role-model stuff, though.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
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I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
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I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.
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From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.
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But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
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My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.
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I'm a father of three Mexican-American kids.
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Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
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Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.
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It's just like being a father; you got to show them love and you got to show them the path. I don't like this role-model stuff, though.
