Charles de Lint Quotes
Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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You have to be yourself.
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Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
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I was always in love with Judy Garland, and when I was growing up, I fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, of course.
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I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.
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Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.
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I know how tough it is to stand up to powerful forces that prey on consumers.
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I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.
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A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.
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The dark energy is not exactly zero, but the first 122 decimal points are zero. That's crazy. That is really one of the craziest things we've ever discovered.
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Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
