Stephen King (Stephen Edwin King) Quotes
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Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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Who have I picked fights with over the years? Bill Gates. Google. Mark Zuckerberg. Even - despite everything that's written about my relationship with Steve Jobs - we had yelling matches.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
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Healthcare is the only civil system where new technology makes prices go up instead of down.
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Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder are big time to them, and they don't like that. In football, you get that all the time. The whole mental makeup is different.
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Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country.
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We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.
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When I think back to my childhood, I just think of the word 'freedom.' In the summers, we spent all day on the beach.
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I don't think there's anybody that has such a keen sense of vocal production and attention to detail as Dre.
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You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free.
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If somebody thinks I have an integrity problem, then the honest thing to do is to tell me what they think it is and let me address it.
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Of all the things a body loves, predictability is one of them.
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I don't think cricket is a game that people who have never played or been involved in understand the excitement. It's a game that is full of excitement, because cricket lovers follow the game and understand the basic principles and rules. They become connoisseurs of the game.
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The core problem is that the world is full of people who would like to take 99 per cent of the information that's on the Internet, and eliminate 1 per cent. Everyone has their own thing they don't like.
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The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not a lack of ability and a lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.
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There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.
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When I was a teenager, I used to watch 'Beverly Hills 90210' - which is totally aging myself - and I'd try to recreate the makeup that they did on Jennie Garth at home.
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It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.
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You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.
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How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string: in sunset we fall into furious attitudes, dead gestures of dolls.
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Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.
