Dan Simmons Quotes
I could not do this, I realized, if I were immortal. This degree of love of life and of one another is granted, I saw for once and for ever, not to immortals, but to those who live briefly and always under the shadow of death and loss.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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A laugh is a terrible weapon.
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I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
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Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.
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Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.
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I look like I'm Chinese or Thai or Japanese - very different.
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We all have something about ourselves that we'd change if we could in a perfect world, be it our body image, our financial status, our relationship, whatever. I wanted to talk about how nobody's exempted from the realities of life and all those things.
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Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is a man who may be a living dictionary but nevertheless falls down miserably in all special situations and decisive moments in life.
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The mind of man may be compared to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes, beyond which in both directions we have an infinitude of silence.
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I could not do this, I realized, if I were immortal. This degree of love of life and of one another is granted, I saw for once and for ever, not to immortals, but to those who live briefly and always under the shadow of death and loss.
