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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My femininity is always something I've tried to preserve in this dog-eat-dog world.
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I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.
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Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use — that is our good use — of other things, and since knowledge is what provides this goodness of use and also good fortune, every man must, as seems plausible, prepare himself by every means for this: to be as wise as possible. Right?
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I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books, I have to start a new direction.
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It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father's will-and it was his love for sinners like me.
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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.
