David Dinkins Quotes
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Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
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Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.
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If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.
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I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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It's constantly fascinating for me that something that feels absolutely right one year, 12 months later feels like the wrong thing to do.
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Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
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I really love Tom Hardy. He makes really interesting choices.
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Well, there are other aspects, I still command very good support in the party.
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Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion.
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The High-Intelligence Life Forms of the planet, of which there were at least three species, all of low technological achievement, they would ignore or enslave or extirpate, whichever was most convenient. For to an aggressive people only technology mattered.
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Everywhere - all over Africa and South America … you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they're terrifying, because they are the death of the soul … This is the prison this planet is being turned into.
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Dread. Bottomless dread... I am that shadow on the threshold defending my remnant peace.
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You know what I've always wanted to do? I've always wanted to put a lung in a suitcase and send it through an airport security check. In effect, the guard would be looking at an X-ray of a lung.
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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
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During the day extend that attitude to everyone you meet. Practice cherishing the "simplest" person (clerks, attendants, etc) or people you dislike.
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The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your voice and the bird singing as we pass the osier bed. What are you whispering? Sorrow, sorrow. Joy, joy. Woven together, like reeds in moonlight.
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I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person. So from the first novel I've been learning techniques to distance myself from the characters so that they are not me and I don't try to protect them in ways that aren't good for the story.
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If we are not represented, we are slaves.
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I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.
