Dan Simmons Quotes
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I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
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Five wives can't all be wrong.
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It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.
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My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.
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Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.
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There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.
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How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.
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I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
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I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.
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In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
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If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.
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Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
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I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing.
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In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.
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There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile.
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I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.
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I've made sure I am working hard enough to get that lead and keep it there.
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My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.
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We always blame other people when things go wrong. For example, family to friends, you think they'll stay by your side, and you realise they never do. But that's life.
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When I went for my medical school interview, I had an old paperback of 'Henderson the Rain King' in the pocket of my coat. I was wearing the best clothes I had - a pair of cords and a sport coat - but when I got to the office, all the other interviewees were lined up in their black suits.
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Just because somebody makes a mistake doesn't make them useless.
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If you want data to survive, carve it in rock.
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Mobs have passions, not brains.
