Charles de Lint Quotes
It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
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I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, 'Can you just pass me my leg?' But I don't ever think about my disability.
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To me, the funnest part of wrestling is evolving. If you stay the same all the time, you're eventually going to be left behind.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.
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There are a lot of teams that don't want to play, that only want to defend against Barcelona, and that makes it difficult. We're always looking for the open space. A lot of times we'll face six defenders and four midfielders.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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My brothers can be a little out of control sometimes and so somebody has to be able to keep them focused.
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I think it's imperative of me to advance that theory that you can win your small victories against the dark.
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The history of the world is the story of people getting off track.
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The achievements of Labour in the years after the Second World War should never be underestimated, but they are now history.
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If you don't have the time or desire to do whatever is being asked of you, say, 'no.' Even if you want to bake those cookies for your kid's fundraiser or take on a new freelancing gig, sometimes you just have to politely decline until you do have the extra time. The other party may be disappointed, but it's not the end of the world.
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It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.
