Terry Brooks Quotes
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capital because they were over-prepared, knew where their business was going, and were able to articulate that through a pitch alongside a pitch deck.
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The gratification of desire is not happiness.
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A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.
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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
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In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.
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When I was young, a lot of things were closed off to me. I was always told, 'Don't do this, you can't do that' – instead of stopping me, it made me think, 'I can do that, I must do that.'
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The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.
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I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.
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Manufacturing is the most important...route to prosperity.
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Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.
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Don't you know? Because American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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Certainly nobody under 21 should have an AR-15.
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To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.
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When we hear the crane’s call we hear no mere bird. We hear the trumpet in the orchestra of evolution. He is the symbol of our untamable past, of that incredible sweep of millennia which underlies and conditions the daily affairs of birds and men.
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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.
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The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.
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That was perfect. It was just the opposite from what I said yesterday.
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Evil contained is not evil destroyed.
