Charles de Lint Quotes
When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.
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There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
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Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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I can't tell you that if you bring in a bunch of weird and different people, then a bunch of good things will happen. But I can tell you that if you hire a bunch of similar people and promote only the ones who are most similar, a bunch of bad things are likely to happen.
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It's superficial that people think I'm cool because I wear certain clothes and I have tattoos. The funniest part is, when they get to know me, they're always surprised by how nerdy I am.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
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It’s hard for me to imagine a life without playing cricket because it’s all I have ever done since I was 11 years old.
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Mark will definitely augment our offense when he is in the lineup and prove to be a threat off the bench with the game on the line.
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'Sexy' doesn't have to come with the price tag of being dumb.
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We can all instinctively understand the idea of life insurance; most of us will feel an instinctive repugnance at the thought of the viatical industry, or 'dead peasants insurance.' As market thinking penetrated the life insurance industry, a moral line was crossed, and the application of market ideas was taken too far.
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When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.
