Brandon Sanderson Quotes
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Islam means peace.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
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I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I'm not possessive, I'm caring... Once you realize a person doesn't want that much care, you automatically back off.
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I've gotten to learn what's important in life and what's not important, and what to spend energy on and what not to. I don't have a family like some of my teammates, but I have a lot of things pulling at me that I have to put my energy into.
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Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who have never abandoned me, and possessing a sufficient share of all that contributes to make life agreeable, I lift my grateful eyes towards the Supreme Being and feel that I am happy.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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It is processes that are important.
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I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.
