David Dinkins Quotes
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Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov -
In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.
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Quite understandably, people think that if there's a six-year gap or whatever, that it's taken me six years to make the album. It's not really like that at all.
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I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
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Anyone who has been to India - specifically Rajasthan, the rich and kingly region in the country's northwest - knows that when it comes to adornment, Indians do not think like other people.
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I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.
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Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.
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The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
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But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.
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Acting's more of a business for me now.
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I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.
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The great thing about Cairo is the vast majority of women wear some kind of head scarf, but they are also very fashion-conscious. They love bright colors.
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I've never had a body issue; I've never had a self-confidence issue, and there's been very few times in my life where I've felt down about the way I look or the way I feel.
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I love TV. I know all the theme songs from the shows I watch. I'm not one of those who'd rather be a movie star. I prefer TV because of the rushed way of working-on a movie set, you sit around and wait and wait to do a scene because they're adjusting the lights.
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Creating sustainable jobs means doubling down on Baltimore's formidable strengths.
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All art is a confession.
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I don't try to impress people. Sometimes my jokes can be very harsh; I'm very sarcastic. I would joke about something disgusting, and my agent might be like, 'OK, maybe leave that behind for this one meeting. The burping? Maybe don't do that.'
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Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.
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They don't think we're in touch with modern Britain, or understand modern Britain or like modern Britain.
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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.
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The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge , man-being and woman-being.
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I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know.
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There is no point in me worrying about what Bloomberg or Badillo will do.
