R. A. Salvatore Quotes
Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunitty should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual. - Drizzt Do'Urden
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I hate competition.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
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Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.
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Whoever said the soul and the body met in the pineal gland was a fool. It's the asshole, stupid.
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Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunitty should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual. - Drizzt Do'Urden
