Daniel Wallace Quotes
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When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.
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I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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Everything can be satirized.
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When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
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A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.
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I shot 'Girl' about three weeks after I finished 'The Magnificent Seven.'
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I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
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Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.
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I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.
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Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the known result.
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The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?
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Our dreams make us large.
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Dreams are what keep a man going.
