Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.
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Health care should be affordable for everyone.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
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I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.
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When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.
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We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
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Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
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I usually start my day with a light breakfast of fruit and eggs and take granola bars with me to eat after practice. Lunch and dinner usually consist of chicken over pasta or rice and beans.
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People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.
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A theory is a very dangerous thing to have.
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I think one of the things if you look at minimalism or expressionism, there's various movements in modern composition that I think you can see really natural relations in pop music, so I mean I always look to that in pop music.
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A constructive work is an embodiment of freedom itself, and is unconsciously perceived, even by those who are consciously against it. The desire to live is the strongest universal emotion, it springs from the depths of our unconscious sensibility – and the desire to give life is our most potent, constructive, conscious expression of this intuition.
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Nothing feels better than going onstage and everybody is singing every word - and actually wanting to see you.
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That's not news! When a shark comes out of the water, walks into a 7-11, and bites you in the ass, then it's news!
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I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and new perspectives - philosophical, religious, aesthetical and even social. In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became law and a way of life.
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Sailing became one of the mainstreams of my life. I suppose my father was an influence. I remember seeing a photo of him at home sailing a big boat to Bermuda in his 20s. I still have it.
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The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.
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Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.
