Bill Dedman Quotes
What are the odds that a nuclear emergency like the one at Fukushima Dai-ichi could happen in the central or eastern United States? They'd have to be astronomical, right?
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If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
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Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.
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It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
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The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.
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It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.
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I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me.
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I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
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At about an age when most children start full time schooling, hundreds of thousands of their contemporaries start a lifetime of drudgery in factories and fields, working 12-16 hours daily.
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No, I think I used to be pretty superstitious about certain things, but I'm really not anymore. As long as I have everything is in order and I have my things as far as the match goes, shooting I'm fine. But I really don't.
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It's very alarming to see what's happening in the Muslim world. And it's about time we come to our senses and realize that moderation is the only path that will ensure peace and stability for the Muslim world, and for the wider world.
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I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.
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Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.
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My view is that the bitcoin is in its very early days, and it is an artificial currency. But whether it is creating new money, whether it is sustainable, whether it would survive - I have many questions about it.
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I found myself sort of becoming a character actor, though I don't know if that would be my natural makeup.
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I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay - nurses, hairdressers, designers - people who just had a different way about themselves.
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I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.
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I don't have a favorite author; I have favorite books. 'Moby Dick' is a favorite book, but Melville was a drunk who beat his wife. 'Moveable Feast' by Hemingway, but I would not like him personally. He was a stupid macho person who believed in shooting animals for fun, but that book was incredible!
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I did have an inkling that I was going to be a writer. That was my intention.
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The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the way that it says it. To read like this is to set aside the ‘literariness’ of the work – the fact that it is a poem or play or novel, rather than an account of the incidence of soil erosion in Nebraska.
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What are the odds that a nuclear emergency like the one at Fukushima Dai-ichi could happen in the central or eastern United States? They'd have to be astronomical, right?
