Terry Brooks Quotes
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, 'Go home and coach basketball.'
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It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.
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I'm just kind of fascinated by how we can deny that we are animals and what our impact on the other animals is like, and how quixotic we can be in trying to assess what we've done in trying to correct it.
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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.
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I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.
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Various channels of dialogue must be kept open to build trust. I will meet North Korea's leader if it is needed to develop relations between the two Koreas.
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I can tell you that my family in the absolute worst of times has seen the absolute best in people. And, that has given us more strength than could ever imagine.
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I learned how quickly I could go from having never met someone to having the world think I'm dating them.
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Fabo is a real rock star, but people look over it, so I'll try to bring it to the light if I can.
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I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.
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I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out.
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Are vital U.S. interests more imperiled by what happens in Iraq where were have 50,000 troops, or Afghanistan where we have 100,000, or South Korea where we have 28,000 - or by what is happening on our border with Mexico? … What does it profit America if we save Anbar and lose Arizona?
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We live in an age where technology is so powerful that we can make change without even leaving our computers or cell phones.
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There's no doubt in my mind that people on the West Coast - L.A. particularly - and the East Coast have no clue at all about what's happening outside their own little bailiwick. And they think everybody is stupid because they are not sophisticated.
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With the lights out, It's less dangerous. Here we are now, Entertain us. I feel stupid, And contagious. Here we are now. Entertain us.
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You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.
