Daniel Keys Moran Quotes

• Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

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• An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don’t want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

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  Tags in Write

• As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

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  Tags in Self, Think, Government

• Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn’t believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.

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• I’m a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned – and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that’s worth.

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  Topics in Children

  Tags in Representative

• If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone.

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• If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I’m unable to see it.

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• It’s obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

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• It’s very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

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• It’s your body and your life and you have an absolute right to do with it as you choose.
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  Tags in Right

• Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human… and we are the people driving that change.

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  Tags in People, Fundamentally

• Plot and character are virtually the same thing.

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• Police do not belong in war zones.

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• So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.

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• The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.

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  Tags in Republican

• The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn’t be sure about, and that something is power.

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  Tags in Measure

• The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it.

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  Tags in Exacerbate

• The universe is not fair and it is never going to be fair.

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  Tags in Universe

• The welfare system in the United States is vile.

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  Tags in Welfare

• There are, believe it or not, good politicians.

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Daniel Keys Moran (30)

Birth:	30th November, 1962
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Computer Programmer, Writer

About

Daniel Keys Moran was born in Los Angeles, California. He is an American computer programmer and science fiction writer. Moran had ambitious plans for a 33 volume series, The Tales of the Continuing Time, three novels of which were published in the late 1980s and early 1990s. A fourth novel, "The A.I. War, Book One: The Big Boost," the first volume of a projected trilogy, was published on March 28, 2011.

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• 1989 - Rene Francois Ghislain Magritte
• 1965 - Reggie Lewis
• 1943 - Philip Norman Bredesen Jr.
• 1929 - Marilyn French
• 1971 - Michael Strahan

Deaths

• 2000 - Sir Cyril Astley Clarke
• 1999 - Quentin Crisp
• 1959 - Max Baer
• 1922 - Ricardo Flores Magon
• 1958 - Mel Ott