David Dinkins Quotes
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I love listening to Lil' Wayne, Drake, and Eminem to get me fired up!
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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I really like just super dry comedy.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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From Texas to New Hampshire and everywhere in between, we know that support for policies such as expanded background checks continue to be popular in both parties.
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
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Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.
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I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
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I'm a huge Nirvana fan.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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The eyes of the world are fixed on the U.S. to see if we have the political courage and moral sense to solve our debt crisis.
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Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
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I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out.
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Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.
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Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.
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Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that intelligence with the God of any religious faith or philosophical system.
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If by chance people would still offer me roles, I'd still like to do them. But if not, that's OK.
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The only routine I have is that I finish everything I start. I wake up early every day - about 6.30 A.M. - but I do not work every day. I could laze for a day or two, but I wouldn't do it for three.
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Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.
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This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because I'm seeing things happen to people that don't have a voice: people that don't have a platform to talk and have their voices heard and affect change. So I'm in the position where I can do that, and I'm going to do that for people that can't.
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Well, I think I am a very, very lucky person. I'm very fortunate.
