Neil Gaiman Quotes
Libraries really are the gates to the future. So it is unfortunate that, round the world, we observe local authorities seizing the opportunity to close libraries as an easy way to save money, without realising that they are stealing from the future to pay for today. They are closing the gates that should be open.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.
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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.
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We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.
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Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
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I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.
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In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.
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Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.
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I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.
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My conscience won't allow me to do films I thought were bad but were going to make money.
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It does not matter what happens when we have gone.
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There is no illness of the body except for the mind.
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Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.
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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
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Libraries really are the gates to the future. So it is unfortunate that, round the world, we observe local authorities seizing the opportunity to close libraries as an easy way to save money, without realising that they are stealing from the future to pay for today. They are closing the gates that should be open.
