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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The asbestos problem impacts everyone.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because of aid; misery and poverty have not ended but increased. Aid has been, and continues to be, an unmitigated political, economic, and humanitarian disaster for most parts of the developing world.
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You know, I go to work in a great office every day, and the amount of freedom that goes with being a pro golfer on the tour is awesome. So I get to enjoy my weeks off away from the course, and then I get to go to work on some of the best golf courses in the world out here.
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There are three processes every company has to have: Somehow you've got to set strategies; you've got to have a budget, so you need an annual operating plan; and somehow you've got to do succession and people planning.
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The price of freedom is the probability of crime. The price of protection is the probability of slavery.
