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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The state of crisis is the real war; the equilibrium is nothing but its reflex.
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The whole idea of genre and categorising films is a critic's construct. For me, I just try and make stories and see where they go, but there's nothing wrong with horror; there's nothing wrong with romantic comedies.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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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.
