Denis Boyles Quotes
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
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By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
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Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
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There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.
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When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.
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They say it only takes an instant to have a dream; a dream can be compressed into hardtack.
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'They find us outlandish,' Lopez admitted. 'Extravagant. Eclectic. Unfathomable.'
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For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting himself and others. He doesn’t use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people he loves.
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Touring is my religion. Music is all-encompassing - my religion.
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If princes and kings were not exalted they might be overthrown.
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One of the themes of 'The Longest War,' my book, which came out before the Arab spring happened, was how al-Qaida and bin Laden was losing the war of ideas in the Muslim world, not because the United States was winning them, but because al-Qaida was simply losing them.
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As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.
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If stupid hurt, the whole planet would be a world of pain.
