Dan Simmons Quotes
I heard the hiss and felt the blessed numbness spreading. If there is a God, I thought, it’s a painkiller.
Dan Simmons
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If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
Adam Hicks
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There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.
Pamela Anderson
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
Ted Turner
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I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
Sally Field
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
Parker Harris
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I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.
Karen Joy Fowler
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
Taya Kyle
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Filming 'Eclipse' - Eclipse was my favorite book so I was really excited to start filming the movie. I just love that it's the height of the love triangle. 'Twilight' develops Edward and Bella's relationship, 'New Moon' develops Jacob and Bella's and in 'Eclipse,' the three of them are physically together.
Taylor Lautner
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I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
Jack Warner
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
Nate Silver
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I remember thinking, 'I can't act.' Pretending to be someone else is a terrifying thought. The thing was that, along with other people, I could create a whole world. I felt absolutely right directing.
Garry Hynes
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They communicate, but their communication system is through touch, posture, looks – body language you could call it, but it goes a bit deeper than that. They can learn 400 or more signs in American sign language.
Jane Goodall
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Maybe increasing the aggregate level of happiness in the world is one way to try and hold back the crash.
Charlie Jane Anders
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We're the only creature God ever created that doesn't want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that's constant is nature is constantly changing.
Don Young
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She was a logical child, as far as children go. She did not understand how such a nice, kind, good God as the one they preyed to, could condemn the whole earth for sinfulness and flood it, or condemn his only Son to a disgusting death on behalf of everyone. This death did not seem to have done much good.
A. S. Byatt
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I heard the hiss and felt the blessed numbness spreading. If there is a God, I thought, it’s a painkiller.
Dan Simmons
