Dennis Quaid Quotes
When I was in my mid-20s, I traveled a lot around the world, and the question I had for everyone I talked to was, 'What is your conception of God?' I found that everybody basically felt the same: God is within and without. He's in everything.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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I need instant gratification.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Look, the justice system is made up of people. People have faults. It's not perfect.
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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
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In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim.
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When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.
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There's alcohol in plant and tree.It must be Nature's planThat there should be in fair degreeSome alcohol in Man.
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My family reached the United States before the Holocaust. Both of my parents emigrated from Russia as young children. My grandparents were fleeing religious persecution and came to America seeking a better life for their family.
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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When I was in my mid-20s, I traveled a lot around the world, and the question I had for everyone I talked to was, 'What is your conception of God?' I found that everybody basically felt the same: God is within and without. He's in everything.
