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Peter De Vries Quotes

I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 27, 1910 - September 28, 1993

Topics

Good Death Go Way Bored Wanted

You never want to plateau out. Getting better every day is my expectation.

Day Better Getting Better You Want

The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

Technology Violence Humanity New Out

The 'Reno' movie is very solid. 'Balls of Fury' I'm pretty disappointed in - I blame myself. People hate both of those movies equally.

Robert Ben Garant

Myself Hate People Blame Movies

One name always stands out when it comes to actors taking on the monsters of our nightmares - Robert Englund. In the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' series, Englund kept us awake as night with a striped shirt and his special glove.

Night Name Street Special Out Shirt

Without a doubt, German football, where I've played for nearly five years, is very similar - maybe just a little less tough than English football.

Roberto Firmino

Football Tough Doubt Years Without

When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing but refused to allow my feelings to sway me. That resilience came from my family. It flowed through our bloodline.

Coretta Scott King

Family Fear Heart Me Resilience

When you throw your hands up in the air like you just don't care, you're doing 'The Fly' by Chubby Checker!

Fly Care Doing Hands You Air

I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole 'Super Bowl' generalization of our world - You're on this side, I'm on that side; you're a Republican, I'm a Democrat; you're country music, I'm rock music.

Music Support World You Country

Housewives run the home and sacrifice a lot, but many people forget that.

Home Sacrifice People Forget Run

I'm a painfully slow reader. And to this day, I mean, I love reading, and I'm very careful - very selective about what I read because I don't read very fast and, therefore, not a great deal.

Love Great Day Reading Slow Fast

I am a Christian; God sent me to fight evil for my people. Jesus was a revolutionist; so am I.

God Fight I Am People Me Evil

Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common with a similar entry point for discussion, but the discussions still need to happen for life to get more interesting.

Life Music Great Art People Gender

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