David Zindell Quotes
"What is a human being, then?" "A seed." "A... seed?" "An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree."
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
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People book me because of the songs I write, not because of the sets that I play, per se... I'm sure I'm going to be moving to a laptop really soon, but I was one of the last guys to let the vinyl go. I was crying. In my room, I still have thousands of records. I still pull them out and play them all the time.
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I went to the U.S. for business because I thought America is a big consuming country, although it's not an overconsuming country.
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
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L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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I don't have goals in life.
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
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Cyclists. I really hate them. I wish they would not be so self-righteous and realise they are a danger to pedestrians. I wish cyclists would not vindictively snap off wing mirrors on cars when they were trying to cross in front of the car at a danger to motorists and pedestrians.
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Sarcasm all around the world is always against right wing and against people in power. That's the definition of political sarcasm.
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I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.
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I think people in electronic music are trying to get these big features: 'Oh my gosh, I'm gonna get the biggest pop star to feature on my track.'
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We are blessed with a faith, which calls into action the whole intellectual man; which prescribes a reasonable service; which challenges the investigation of its evidences; and which, in the doctrine of immortality, invests the mind of man with a portion of the dignity of Divine intelligence.
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In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.
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I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.
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We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make to our human community. The real work of your life is to figure out your function-your part in the whole-as soon as possible, and then get about the business of fulfilling it as only you can.
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I love badminton. That's my sport!
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"What is a human being, then?" "A seed." "A... seed?" "An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree."
