J. G. Holland Quotes
There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.
Quotes to Explore
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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.
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I've always liked to dress up; I've always liked to look good. You look good, you feel good, you play good.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
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It's cool cause my sister is older than me and we went to the same high school, so by the time I got to high school, I got the lowdown on all the teachers and everything.
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I was never interested in writing novelizations. I'm still not. Especially not for 'Star Wars.'
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Dimmu Borgir is always proud to advertise its member shifts. It’s a Norwegian thing. It’s a small community and good musicians are hard to find. For Dimmu, it’s a curse. I think there’s been 15 people in and out of the band. That’s the thing, I think. Dimmu Borgir is stronger and moving in the right direction with every new member.
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I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road.
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I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.
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Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.
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There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.
