K. W. Jeter Quotes
To retrieve the past is no great effort, when the events to be recalled are so firmly imprinted on the mind. It is existence in the present, the bleak wreckage and residue of what has gone before, that is so burdensome.
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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I've just always been a bit of a dork.
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Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
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For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.
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All is well with me. The rain doesn't reach me, my room is well heated, what more can one ask for? There's no shortage of work, either.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
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To retrieve the past is no great effort, when the events to be recalled are so firmly imprinted on the mind. It is existence in the present, the bleak wreckage and residue of what has gone before, that is so burdensome.
