Anthony Daniels Quotes
The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions and when full acknowledgment of it would undermine the foundations of his intellectual worldview.
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.
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I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.
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I've cooked plenty of meals when I was sad, lonely, depressed, angry, bored, and/or under the weather. My primary aim in these circumstances is generally to cheer myself up, to fill my stomach with something warm so I can feel comforted and fed, usually just with a quick soup or an omelet.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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When I was in high school, I tried too hard to be cool and to impress people, but playing all these different characters has helped me find myself again.
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From a reality perspective, I'm sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don't know what is.
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I was ready to accept the philosophy that the Party is right and that in the coming struggle you could not permit yourself any doubts after the party had made a decision.
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When your voice contradicts reality and truth, the only way to create space for it is to discredit reality and truth.
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I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.
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The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions and when full acknowledgment of it would undermine the foundations of his intellectual worldview.
