DeForest Kelley Quotes
I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
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I just think that everything is symbolic, and who you are determines everything that you do, small moves and big moves.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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I'm not a wimpy kid at all. I don't care what other people think - I only care what I think about myself.
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What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
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Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
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I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life. I try to keep that as much in balance with work as I can.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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Some would suggest that there has been a dramatic change in our perception of the world and ourselves within the world. Others have observed that there has been an almost complete about-face in a relatively short span of time.
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I don't blame homosexuals for being angry when people say they've made a choice to be gay, because they don't.
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Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.
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A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
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It has been universally recognized, in all authentic teachings of mankind, that every being born into this world has to work, not merely to keep himself alive, but to strive towards perfection.
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I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.
