Dallas Campbell Quotes
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My kitchen bench is covered with vitamins and protein powders. I go through phases when I'm sure I'm taking too many - but I don't get sick often.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
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The fights in future will not be over whether we ought to do something, but over how we ought to do it, and that's a reasonable debate.
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There is only One Being who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.
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When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.
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This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this.
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For the self-conscious or insecure girl, technology can become a crippling addiction, an insatiable hunger not just for connection but the elusive promise of being liked by everyone.
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The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus and a chair that's not obtained from Craigslist that keeps poking into his back.
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I'm not sure if a grinning Irish guy who is speechless for 45 seconds is going to make good TV.
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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
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I first heard the term "meta-novel" at a writer's conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The idea is that even though each book in a series stands alone, when read collectively they form one big ongoing novel about the main character. Each book represents its own arc: in book one of the series we meet the character and establish a meta-goal that will carry him through further books, in book two that meta-goal is tested, in book three - you get the picture.
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God cannot be grasped by the mind. If he could be grasped, he would not be God.
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The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view. The hard part is that the investor must measure himself not by his own perceptions of his performance, but by the objective measure of the market. The market has its own reality. In an immediate emotional sense the market is always right so if you take a variant point of view you will always be bombarded for some time by conventional wisdom as expressed by the market.
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When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.
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The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control
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In my lifetime, the population of the world has doubled.
