Tad R. Callister Quotes
You cannot pray for an A on a test and study for a B. You cannot pray for a celestial marriage and live a telestial life. You cannot pray for something and act less.
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.
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I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.
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Say yes to everything.
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I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people of that.
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One of my psychoses is that I feel like I can do anything. Actually, I believe anybody can do and make anything, even things that don't exist. The making isn't the hard part; it's having faith. If you do only reasonable things, you'll never start your own business.
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I work with a lot of scientists, and one of the frustrating things they find is that all this fascinating stuff is being done which doesn't find its way into science fiction. They say look at the science fact pages - they're so much more imaginative than science fiction.
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You cannot pray for an A on a test and study for a B. You cannot pray for a celestial marriage and live a telestial life. You cannot pray for something and act less.
