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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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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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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You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.
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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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Think about a guy like Bob Mitchum, with his kind of chest gut not defining itself one way or the other. Was there anybody tougher? Lee Marvin was a marine sniper during the Second World War. They had this sense of themselves, and they had this product of being a man in a masculine way.
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When I was 16, I really decided that music was something I wanted to do.
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That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.
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I don't believe you need high capacity magazines to go hunt. If you have to use 100 rounds to shoot a deer, you're in trouble.
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I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.
