Derek Kilmer Quotes
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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I was an expert horseman.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.
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It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, came through the air and the high air to Ireland.
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I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life.
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The scope of modern government in what it can and ought to accomplish for its people has been widened far beyond the principles laid down by the old "laissez faire" school of political rights, and the widening has met popular approval.
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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
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Some people call themselves fiscal conservatives; my wife says I'm just cheap.