Terry Brooks Quotes
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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I don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff.
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People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.
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I'm really addicted to water. I carry a bottle of water everywhere I go. I know people think I'm a nut.
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There's no such thing as 'bad' food or 'good' food.
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As women and men, we're not primed and taught to feel that women are as inspirational as men.
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I live in a city and a state and a country where I support my elected representatives.
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To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
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I get income, but I don't have a big swath of money to invest in things.
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As soon as I touched the mic, I knew that's what I would do for the rest of my life.
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In 2008, Milton Sheppard opened the Waiter Training School in the Bronx, N.Y., charging $175 for courses, but the business soon ran out of money. He now operates a clown college in the same space.
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We cannot kill or capture our way out of an industrial-strength insurgency.
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You can satisfy your soul's mission by committing to leaving something behind on this planet that will make a difference to those who come after you.
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The face we choose to miss, Be it but for a day- As absent as a hundred years When it has rode away.
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If you're 50 years old or younger, give every book about 50 pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it, or give it up. If you're over 50, which is when time gets shorter, subtract your age from 100 - the result is the number of pages you should read before deciding whether or not to quit. If you're 100 or over you get to judge the book by its cover, despite the dangers in doing so.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster.
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'Mad Men' has been my big break. I'm beyond thrilled.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
