David Dinkins Quotes
This is about these particular candidates in this particular year. That's what motivates me.
Quotes to Explore
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NASA should start thinking about this planet.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
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First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway.
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You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.
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If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.
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I enjoy not knowing everything about a musician I like. At a time when you can find out a popstar's favourite animal, I think it's more exciting not to know. I just don't want to tell everyone everything.
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I have stopped having goals. If you have many goals, and you don't reach your goals, it is very upsetting, so I just think of keeping it simple, working hard and going and playing the game. But I know there are going to be very important series for Indian cricket. I will just try my best to be in my fittest form.
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Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.
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Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that anything can be funny if seen from a comedic point of view.
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Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
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I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.
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Over the years, we settled into American life and embraced it fully. But having come from a different culture, I didn't know the boundaries of American culture. Which is that, as a girl, you didn't play football or soccer at lunch with the boys, and to be cool, you didn't get into math Olympiad.
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Not only do I not drive, I don't have my driver's license; there's a story there, but the upshot is that I spent my high school years an ardent environmentalist and workout junkie who wanted to save the environment, burn calories, and have my boyfriends drive me around.
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I have my own show at 28 and a Golden Globe. So, yes, I face rejection, but I've also been very fortunate and understand how fortunate I am.
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My entire notion of friendship altered when I depended on someone for more than just the pleasant passing of time.
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I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.
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Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.
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I'm good with dialect. Some actors do it immediately; other actors never quite get it. It's something I've always really enjoyed and something I've always been pretty fast with.
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This is about these particular candidates in this particular year. That's what motivates me.
