Dan Simmons Quotes
'How about,' she said, 'that you do the logical thing because it’s the logical thing to do?'
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Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.
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Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.
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I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
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I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.
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I am an academic, and I have always made it clear that my ultimate home is in the realm of ideas.
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
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I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.
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I'm pretty stubborn.
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Teach for America recruits top recent college grads, young professionals, people we believe are the U.S.'s most promising future leaders, and asks them to commit two years to teach in high-need urban and rural communities.
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You find Jews, Irish, and Italians in every orchestra.
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All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.
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Hey Rid?" She stopped and turned to look at him, almost ruefully. Like she couldn't help what she was any more then a shark could help being a shark, but if she could... "Yeah, Shrinky Dink?" "You're not all bad." She looked right at him and almost smiled. "You know what they say. Maybe I'm just drawn that way.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.
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A few caring kind quality friends are worth more than any amount of shallow popularity.
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'How about,' she said, 'that you do the logical thing because it’s the logical thing to do?'
