Charles de Lint Quotes
Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
Quotes to Explore
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Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.
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It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.
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It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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We all present versions of ourselves. The person you are at work is not the same person you are at home. The face we present in our most intimate relationships is not the face we present to the world.
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One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
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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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The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.
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It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
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As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
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Everybody that's employed by 'WWE' - the biggest wrestling company in the world - should be good wrestlers able to tell good stories.
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It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.
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I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.
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One of my favorite albums in the world is Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska.' Each song has this very distinct character who has something profound to say.
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We have the best sporting event in the world in polo, and yet it is weak.
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If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
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The world was always going to be remade by people who were too busy to remake themselves first and who left the world twice as miserable as before.
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If you take a band like Nirvana, their biggest hits are structurally the same as even a hair metal band's biggest hits. The structure's not different - the attitude was different. Except it really wasn't. It seemed a little more human.
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The Party of the Regions has won a convincing victory. We are ready to undertake responsibility for forming the Cabinet and we are calling on everyone to join us.
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Our story of evolution ended with a stirring in the brain-organ of the latest of Nature's experiments; but that stirring of consciousness transmutes the whole story and gives meaning to its symbolism. Symbolically it is the end, but looking behind the symbolism it is the beginning.
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One thing I always make - and I'm sure this is partly to do with memory and yearning and because I've made it ever since my children were born - I make gingerbread every year. And it's partly just the perfume of the spices in the house, makes it smell like winter to me.
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Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
