"I do not concern myself with my inability to feel such comfort amidst humans (other than with very few friends and family), but, rather, am simply thankful that at least dogs exist, and Iâ€™m humbly aware of how much less a person Iâ€™d be â€“ how less a human â€“ if they did not exist."

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Source : Rick Bass (2001). “Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Rick Bass

#Dog Quotes #Family And Friends Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“I don't know if it [Mary and Jane] is a do-over or wanting someone to have made certain entertainment for us that did not exist when we were that age, but we keep going back and doing it again. I have a 12-year-old girl now and I want to make things that will speak to her. Things that will that have lessons for her to take away.”

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“I'm a professional Jonathan Coulton. It's partially ego, to be completely honest: It feels great to have people adoring you in that way.”

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“Itâ€™s because Iâ€™m so good-looking, isnâ€™t it?”
“Now as to the behavior of the soldiers: occupations always corrupt the occupiers.”
“Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing. ...I've always been influenced by the folk song, the storytelling tradition in folk music. And so for years I wrote mostly story songs. I still do that, but as I've gone on, it's gotten a little more personal. I used to write mostly in the third person. I write a little more in the first person now.”

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“I just know that there are a lot of people out there who are younger than I am, and I wish to be a role model for them. If they have a dream, I want to help them keep that motivation high, so that they can realize their dream. I want to show people that they CAN have fun in life.”

Source : "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. November 23, 2005.
“I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way”
“The only food he has ever stolen has been down on a coffee table. He claims that he genuinely believed it to be a table meant for dogs.”

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