Charles de Lint Quotes
If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are.
Charles de Lint
Quotes to Explore
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
Quentin Tarantino
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Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?
B. F. Skinner
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
Nancy Pelosi
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I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
Iain Glen
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
Lance Bass
NSYNC
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During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.
Gary Hamel
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The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
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I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie.
Edith Head
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Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.
Fiona Shaw
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To travel? In order to travel it's enough to be. ... Why travel? In Madrid, in Berlin, in Persia, in China, at the Poles both, where would I be but in myself, and in the sort and kind of my sensations?Life is what we make of it. Travels are travellers. What we see is not what we see but what we are.
Fernando Pessoa
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A syndicate is a group that has gotten together to pool their money so they can cover more contingencies. If I come to track with, say, $200, and I join a syndicate of 20 people, each of whom can bet $200, we can spread our bets, and that gives us a better chance of winning.
David Milch
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Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of 52 Tavistock Square but I open my eyes and exclaim, "Good God! Here I am again!" not always with pleasure, often with pain; sometimes in a spasm.
Virginia Woolf
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I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.
Edmund Hillary
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Michael Jordan was that guy - he was Michael Jordan. So whatever he did, we followed.
Zach LaVine
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Whatever we have, the property of it is God's; we have only the use of it, according to the direction of our great Lord, and for his honour.
Matthew Henry
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If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are.
Charles de Lint
