Ken Spillman Quotes
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I have never had personal debt and never will.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.
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A lot of electronic music out there feels cold. I want to incorporate a human element.
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
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I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
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I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.
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Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
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I spent 19 years as a Washington reporter covering a variety of beats.
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I want to release six songs, let people listen to those, let them chill for a second, do a tour, release another six songs, chill for a second and then take my favorite four, put them on the album, and add some more.
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If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.
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'Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me,' he said, 'then I would say this lady can not exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.'
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The new regime which had succeeded his after the coup had become as fragmentary as the old, in the time-honoured way of all revolutions.
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It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.
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Auditioning is one of the most nerve-racking things you could ever do, but you have to be so focused that you don't tic.
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It’s a downer to tell anything to a kid. I once had a kid ask me, 'What was it like to see the first automobile?' Shit, man, I was born in 1962.
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Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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I'm still wearing Target and hand-me-downs.
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We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.
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The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.
