Jeff Lindsay Quotes
We all pretend, we all hide things, so why not take the concept to an extreme? That is the basic idea for the character of Dexter. Pretend to be human, while quietly and carefully living out the life of a monster on the side.
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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For anyone who's been in care, successfully coming through the system is nothing to with money or success; it's the ability to feel love and be loved in return.
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In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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I'm just not very funny.
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I became paranoid for a long time: I thought that people were out to harm me.
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When you’re going through something hard and you start wondering where Allah is, just remember, the Teacher is always quiet during a test.
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Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.
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My wife is so fat that the last time I saw something that big it was grazing.
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Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.
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We all pretend, we all hide things, so why not take the concept to an extreme? That is the basic idea for the character of Dexter. Pretend to be human, while quietly and carefully living out the life of a monster on the side.
