Dan Simmons Quotes
Listen! There will be no more offerings, neither child nor parent. There will be no more sacrifices for anyone other than our fellow human. The time of obedience and atonement is past.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
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Miguel has this Prince, Marvin Gaye, old-school feel that I love.
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The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.
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I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.
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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
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It would be more weird if people didn't stare at me or shout at me.
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When I first started out, there were times I would dress or act in a way because I thought it was expected of me or that people would take me more seriously. But once I started leading in a way that was authentically me, that is when I really started to see success.
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America had Russia wrapped around it little pinky through the whole '90s. We did everything you told us. And we were eager to do more and more. The whole nation - Russian nation was like, 'Tell us what else we can do to please you. We want to be like you. We love you.' And then in 1999, bam. You bomb Yugoslavia. And that was the end of it.
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I don't feel naked around you anymore.
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Things are drawing towards the end now, unless I am mistaken. There is an unpleasant time just in front of you; but keep your heart up!
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Listen! There will be no more offerings, neither child nor parent. There will be no more sacrifices for anyone other than our fellow human. The time of obedience and atonement is past.
