Irving Wallace Quotes
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.
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We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
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Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
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I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I really had no preconceptions or expectations for myself or really any rules. It kind of represented, at least for me, a divergent path of creativity and self-discovery.
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I can bear my own sorrows, but the sorrows arising from the calamities visiting Islam and Muslims have crushed me. I feel each blow delivered to the Muslim world as delivered first to my own heart.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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I remember the days of sitting at book signings, playing with my pen when no one would come, and still I even then thought I was living the dream, because I had a book out.
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I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.
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Doctrines don't govern policy. They provide a conceptual framework by which policymakers approach their decisions. But there is no such thing as a doctrine that controls policy in every way.
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.
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I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
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Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.
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Our competition in life is solely with our old self.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.