George Konrad Quotes
I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
Quotes to Explore
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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I've never been a partier.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
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I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.
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When you innovate, you create new industries that then boost your economy. And when you create new industries and that becomes part of your culture, your jobs can't go overseas because no one else has figured out how to do it yet.
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If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.
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When I was doing 'A Raisin in the Sun' with Sean Combs, we began in bed, and he would give me 10 kisses and an 11th for luck before the play began.
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Modern European composers…have very largely received their stimulus, their rhythms and impulses from Machine Age America. They have a much older tradition of musical technique which has helped them put into musical terms a little more clearly the thoughts that originated here. They can express themselves more glibly.
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I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
