David Farland Quotes
Never concede to evil.... When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger.
Quotes to Explore
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
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For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
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No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capital because they were over-prepared, knew where their business was going, and were able to articulate that through a pitch alongside a pitch deck.
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I am myself of a mixed background.
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I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
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The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.
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Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.
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My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.
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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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My kids think America is swimming pools on the roof, screening rooms, and hot dogs. They love it here.
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No matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe, it is both possible and, more importantly, it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort.
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Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.
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I was really trying to sell to people who hate jazz: to make a case for the art form as youthful and energetic, not the sort of rarified intellectual activity it's painted as.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much about dying, either. It's just a fact of being human.
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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Never concede to evil.... When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger.
