Daniel Wallace Quotes
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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As an entrepreneur, you tend to see the opportunities where others see none.
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Sometimes, I'm driving along in my car, and a song from my high-school years comes on the radio: Springsteen's 'Thunder Road.' Just the opening few chords make me want to roll down the window and let the wind blow back my hair.
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At the end of your twenties, you realize you are inherently flawed, and that's great, and that's what makes you dynamic.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.
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For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22.
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Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and working internationally to cut off the flow of funds to al Qaeda. They are having a difficult time. They failed in this endeavor.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.
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Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual act of giving something. And we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given.
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Homosexuality is like an inside baseball thing. It's like a gag that people share; 'How is your husband?' But when it comes to bringing diversity to a broader audience, suddenly it's a different road. It's what we call 'a risk.' Isn't it our responsibility to elevate the standards and change people's perceptions?
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How it could have been different, how different decisions and events could have taken place. I'm not sure how it would have played out differently. I just didn't want it to play out the way it did.
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The problem a lot of writers have is that they really enjoy people saying, "You're brilliant." They let their self-perception be dictated by reader response. But if you're going to let other people make you feel good, you're going to end up feeling bad when they say the opposite. You've got to be a cultural stoic. Then you won't be devastated by people who respond negatively. Of course, the downside is that it sort of stops you from being able to enjoy people liking your work.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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In a moment, everything can change and in a moment, you can change everything.
