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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Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.
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If you set a good example you need not worry about setting rules.
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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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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.
