Daniel Keys Moran Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
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It's not enough for just us to invest in Utah; more and more, we are encouraging businesses around the world to follow suit. We want them to invest in and become part of Utah's future and to allow Utah to invest and become part of theirs.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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C'mon, I mean who didn't listen to 'The Who' in the 60s?
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I do believe that peoples' natures can be changed, and they have to be changed if we want to live in this modern world and be a part of it.
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As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of art, not simply the history of photography, who have shaped important directions for the future.
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In a two-year period, all my dreams came true: the birth of a son... publishing a best-selling book... launching a successful organization... joining the [Barack] Obama Administration... And then all my nightmares came true.
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I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.
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Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.
