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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Better the robes of a magnate and the hauberk of a warrior than to grow stale for want of challenges.
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If we obstinately refuse to reform what we have implicitly declared to be wrong, and engaged to put away the holding of the Africans in slavery... have we not the great reason to fear, yea, may we not with great certainty conclude, God will withdraw his kind protection from us, and punish us yet seven times more?
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In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.
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Occasionally I like a really good pair of shoes. A pair of leather shoes from Gieves & Hawkes in England, Buckshot Brogue, they look really sick.
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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.
