Bram Stoker Quotes
Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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I don't know what would have happened to Wal-Mart if we had laid low and never stirred up the competition. My guess is that we would have remained a strictly regional operator.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
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I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
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Netflix is something I watch.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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'Animal Kingdom' feels like a suburban Melbourne version of 'The Godfather 'to me. It's epic and Shakespearean in its story, and yet you still feel like you can reach out and touch it.
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Teaching is a great complement to writing. It's very social and gets you out of your own head. It's also very optimistic. It renews itself every year - it's a renewable resource.
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It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.
