Dan Geer Quotes
The price of freedom is the probability of crime. The price of protection is the probability of slavery.
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Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles in film. I'd be honoured. But I don't know if it will actually happen. I'm just happy with the idea of being associated with it. It's nice there's a lot of good will.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
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I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.
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Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.
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The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.
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In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.
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The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
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I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the violence, the poverty and the desperation that Mexico is living through.
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Some chefs go crazy with one restaurant, and if I had 20, I would go nuts.
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We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.
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If, on a rare occasion, it is necessary to speak with some severity in order to make a grievous crime felt, we should always, at the conclusion of the rebuke, add some kind words. We must heal wounds, as the Samaritan did, with wine and oil. But as oil floats above all other liquors, so meekness should predominate in all our actions.
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The price of freedom is the probability of crime. The price of protection is the probability of slavery.
