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 really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.
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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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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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You got to grow up and mature when you see you've got something going for real.
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All mental hygiene is based on the core practice of doing nothing. Most of us are good at wasting time, staring at the wall while telling ourselves we should be working. We call this doing nothing, but our brains are furiously active. We think constantly, and our thinking is often rife with distress.
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I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book.
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Mobs have passions, not brains.
