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."
Quotes to Explore
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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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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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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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One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer and vaguer and more and more relative, to banish intellectual distinctions, to depend on feeling instead of thought, and gradually to come to believe that God has no power, that he cannot communicate with us, cannot reveal himself to us, indeed has not done so, and that religion is our own sweet invention.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.
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If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.
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It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.
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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."
