Bill Dedman Quotes
Though some student activists of the 1960s may have idolized Alinsky, he didn't particularly idolize them.
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
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US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
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It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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I like to race, not to do laps alone.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.
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I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.
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Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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With the way that the times are, we're all looking for a little fantasy... Fantasy is such an important part of my fashion...
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The Catholic clergy seldom bother to make their arguments plausible; it is plain that they have little respect for human intelligence, and indeed little belief in its existence.
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Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.
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That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with.
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This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
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Though some student activists of the 1960s may have idolized Alinsky, he didn't particularly idolize them.
