Dan Simmons Quotes
I thought-To lose all this forever?And I hallucinated Aenea’s voice saying To lose all this forever is the essence of being human, my love.
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.
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On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Politicians make mistakes. People misspeak in public. God knows I have proven both. A lot.
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I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.
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I thrive with fashion and shopping and imports and things like that. It gives me a rush. I love Barneys New York and Neiman Marcus and all the top-of-the-line houses.
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I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
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Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel'? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.
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I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
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I just have work to do; I just do it.
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It is not about money. It is about how you treat the player.
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A number of years ago, I found a book of photography by Weegee; he was a crime photographer in the 1930s in New York. He was the first person to put a police scanner in a car and drive around.
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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
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Abortion should not only be safe and legal, it should be rare.
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As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.
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I'm not a mother of children, but I'm a different type of mother where my approach to design is more in line with nature. It's less about dictating and more about editing and listening and allowing something to grow. So I nourish and let the material express what it wants to be.
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When I was in grad school, I wanted to be in academia forever.
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I thought-To lose all this forever?And I hallucinated Aenea’s voice saying To lose all this forever is the essence of being human, my love.
