Dan Reynolds Quotes
When I was 18, I applied to go to BYU like my six brothers ahead of me - I have eight boys and one girl in my family.
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I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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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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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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Saddam Hussein was an odious dictator, but he was also a very effective opponent of Iran. He was also a very effective opponent of al-Qaida.
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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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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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Coffee is my water now.
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In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades.
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Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.
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Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.
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I lost the accent years ago, but I'm still very proud to be Scottish, and I love wearing a kilt.
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The same regions of the brain light up when someone touches their smartphone as when they touch a family member or a pet.
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No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.
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Engaging Iran won't guarantee improved U.S.-Iranian relations or a more stable Gulf region. But not engaging means more of the same.
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When I was 18, I applied to go to BYU like my six brothers ahead of me - I have eight boys and one girl in my family.
