Terry Brooks Quotes
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
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I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
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Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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I exercise five days a week at home.
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There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.
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He owned a service station, and I used to go there and piddle around - pump some gas, get in the way.
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As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.
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I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical.
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My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization.
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There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.
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I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
