Dan Simmons Quotes
In the beginning was the Word.In the end...past honor, past life, past caring...In the end will be the Word.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
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Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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Without proper experiments I conclude nothing.
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My success is that I have these two great cultures behind me. One is Italian. I've continued to nurture that. But I also feel very American.
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The most important thing is to find collective solutions in diplomacy and I think that is possible.
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I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.
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In the beginning was the Word.In the end...past honor, past life, past caring...In the end will be the Word.
