Dan Simmons Quotes
The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer.
Quotes to Explore
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.
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We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.
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If you realize early what your influence is, you can have a better understanding of what you are writing about.
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It's dangerous to accept crisis as your baseline. It gets harder and harder to see the anti-crises that are so requisite to happiness: the quiet times, the crucial pauses - like those in a poem.
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I have always wanted to do something high octane. I've wanted to tackle an action role where I play a tomboy but empower myself as a woman.
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France is a pretty stable democracy, but incidents occur. And I was pleased to have police accompaniment.
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It is a great life, this life of music.
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The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer.
