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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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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I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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You have to take ownership and leadership of tomorrow. For that to be possible, you have to strengthen your capacity and widen your vision as a global citizen.
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The industry's changed so much that you can't just design something, put on a great show, and say, 'Okay, my job is done.'
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A 3K word story might well be done in some caffeine-and-nicotine-fuelled 36 hour session, and at the end of it, there'll be a few passes of editing required, but I basically have a polished draft.
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I think I make most of my decisions pretty organically.
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All man has to do is cooperate with the big forces, the sun, the rain, the growing urge. Seeds sprout, stems grow, leaves spread in the sunlight. Man plants, weeds, cultivates and harvests. It sounds simple, and it is simple, with the simplicity of great truths.
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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.
