Dan Savage Quotes
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
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The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.
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It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
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A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang-on - it distracts you from getting into the story because you're thinking: 'Where are they from?'
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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
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Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.
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I know I'm gonna die so my revenge is living well.
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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
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I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
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I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.
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Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.
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I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.
