Don Henley Quotes
I'm always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I've got pieces of paper all over my house.
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I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
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I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.
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Nobody really doubted me playing football, making it to the NFL. I was like, 'I know I can do that.'
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The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.
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I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don't know how to describe it. Doing it is the most extraordinary thing. Because it's like Shakespeare times 100 with singing. It's that satisfying - and that demanding.
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In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art.
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Among the group of people waiting at the fortress was a schoolgirl in a brown and yellow uniform holding a green eiderdown quilt and, by the loop at its neck, a red hot-water bottle.
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Lasker mouthed, 'Trust him,' and Max sighed. Trust a lawyer? It flew in the face of his most cherished principles.
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The only things in my life that compatibly exist with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves.
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Thus the labour of a manufacture adds, generally, to the value of the materials which he works upon, that of his own maintenance, and of his masters profits. The labour of a menial servant, on the contrary, adds to the value of nothing.
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I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.
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We are civilized human beings, but we're all animals deep down, and that creates a certain friction in all of us.
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I have very sensitive skin, and so, whenever I can, I want to give it a rest. I'm, like, the moisturizing queen.
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If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.
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I enjoy worldbuilding very much. I generally start with an approximation. With 'Flesh and Spirit' and 'Breath and Bone,' because I was thinking of a world on the brink of a dark age, I began with the sense of Roman Britain. But I purposely set the geography to match something other than Britain - which has been overdone.
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When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon - all served with black beans and rice. It's festive but different.
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When people are unable to integrate their traumatic memories, they seem to lose their capacity to assimilate new experiences as well. It is as if their personality stops at a certain points and cannot enlarge any more by the addition or assimilation of new elements. Unless they become aware of the split off elements and integrate them into a story that had happened in the past but was now over, they would experience a slow decline in their personal and professional functioning.
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There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.
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I extol life so much that I cannot make art.
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I'm always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I've got pieces of paper all over my house.
