Dan Poynter Quotes
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.
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I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
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Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
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I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
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I think the United Nations is a useful format to discuss matters, but I think it's a weak institution in being able to carry out matters and, in many respects even, it has been harmful on things like human rights.
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Actually, 'Wayne's World 2' I kind of liked. I think 'Wayne's World 2' does have some creative things in it, some ideas in it.
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Words that add no new information or aren't repeated for emphasis are just padding. A sentence may carry three or five or eight of them, each one as unnoticeable as an extra two ounces on your hips but collectively adding up to a large burden of fat.
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If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.
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I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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With words woven into almost every detail of his life, it seems amazing that Mr. Mets' thinking on the subject of language should be so limited.
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The more important the emotion is, the fewer words required to express it: Will you go out with me? I think I like you. I care for you. I love you. Marry me. Goodbye.
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I probably should be thinking of better ideas on how to promote myself, but I don't really spend a lot of time doing it. I really don't know how to promote effectively.
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Everyone is going to die.
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In our country, being from immigrant parents, growing up black in the South, coming out at 16 years old, being a teen parent... you would assume that my life would amount to nothing. And here I stand today. So, if I can do it... you can, too!
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When I wrote the first Betsy book, 'Undead and Unwed,' I had no idea, none, that it would be a career-defining, genre-defining book, the first of over a dozen in the series, the first of over 70 published books, the first on my road to the best-seller list, the first on my road to being published in 15 countries.
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Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words.
