Richard Matheson Quotes
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.
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I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
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Whether you're a Democrat or Republican, I want everyone to know that I'm here. We'll talk; we'll visit.
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The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
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It's getting worse under Prime Minister Modi. The economic miracle has failed, to a degree, and people are reaching back to a kind of imagined Hindu past for a feeling of pride. And that feeling of pride necessarily comes from denying any kind of Muslim heritage. People my age seem to be becoming illiberal in a way that I'm surprised by.
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We're not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin porcelain can be, run my hand over a textile, see if I want to sit in a chair.
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Tempus edax rerum.
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Nothing is more certain than death and nothing uncertain but its hour.
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Ὅρκοις τὰ μὴ δίκαια μὴ νικᾶν λέγω.
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The story of the Internet is this incredibly strong, exciting change.
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When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.
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There is no example of someone reading their scripture and saying, 'I have a prediction about the world that no one knows yet, because this gave me insight. Let's go test that prediction,' and have the prediction be correct.
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The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.
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But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.
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A wave do ye displace, A shield do ye extend To the travelling woe, And violent exertion through grief. And inflaming through fury Between heaven and earth.
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I don't think of things globally myself, but I kind of would like to think of things where they are tangible and here. Then I can grasp that concept.
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All of us have a path to follow and the path begins on earth.
