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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The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda.
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I have done my best. I saw a fatal flaw in the camera industry. We did our best to address it.
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The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had.
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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.
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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.
