Dan Simmons Quotes
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I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
Barbara Bush -
It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
Tahar Rahim -
I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
Kate Christensen -
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
Joanne Rowling -
I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
Owen Benjamin -
I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
Eddi Reader
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Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.
Carlos Santana Santana -
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.
Mahmoud Abbas -
Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.
Ramana Maharshi -
You can't form a character without being completely comfortable with who you are as a person.
Candis Cayne -
A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger still.
Carl Sagan
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An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people and consumption as more important than creative activity. It means shifting the emphasis from the worker to the product of work, that is, from the human to the sub-human, surrender to the forces of evil.
E. F. Schumacher -
'Let them scoff as they see fit! I will never compromise what I consider my art, especially for the sake of gain!''For the sake of gain I’d compromise the art of my grandmother,' muttered Zamp under his breath.
Jack Vance -
In general, the rate of evaporation (m) of a substance in a high vacuum is related to the pressure (p) of the saturated vapor by the equation
Irving Langmuir -
The Devil is an Ass! fool'd off! and beaten!
Ben Jonson -
Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
Coretta Scott King
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The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
Albert Schweitzer -
I like the characters that have some redeeming quality or if it's interesting to me in any way.
Fred Willard -
A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising.
James Collins -
Hopefully I've done it, not in a pretentious way, but just as a cinematic mix,
Cameron Crowe -
If one is to observe, M. Endymion, one must be in the proper place to observe.
Dan Simmons