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Dan Simmons Quotes

The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: April 4, 1948

Topics

Truth Great Truth Is Career Create

We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached.

Experience Circumstances Electrical

Preseason game plans are always about fundamentals and playing football. You're not trying to out-scheme anybody, you're just trying to beat people and out-execute people. That's what's fun to me.

Football Fun People Me Game You

If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.

Women Men Black Young Now Out

For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.

Funny Sad Culture Day Death People

I don't think that there's any Marine out there that says she can't do the job because she's a female.

Loretta Reynolds

Job Think She Out Because Female

My thing is related to who I am as a person. The clothes are an extension of me. The music is an extension of me. All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I'm feeling at the time, whatever direction I'm heading in. And hopefully, everyone follows.

Music Time Culture I Am Me Clothes

Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.

Joshua Lederberg

Confidence Age Me Young Try Out

In business, when you can meet an unmet need that is this primal, even meeting it in a superficial way can create a multi-billion-dollar business - e.g., the chat rooms in AOL when it first came out, or the lounges in Starbucks, or the billion people who are on Facebook - even though these are hardly the most intimate of life experiences.

Life Business People You Create Way

I think a movie is a great date idea for younger couples. It takes the pressure off, since something else is entertaining you. It's also good for couples in a very comfortable relationship.

Good Relationship Great Think You

A lot of my stuff just wasn't saleable. I still don't do private or corporate commissions. It becomes like interior design. I don't enjoy it. The process makes me feel physically sick.

Cornelia Parker

Me Sick Process Design Feel Enjoy

My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes.

Father Age School Me Back My Own

What would happen in the U.S. to terrorists who are not citizens? In less than 24 hours, they would be rounded up, taken to the airport and expelled.

Airport Happen Up Would 24 Hours

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