David Dinkins Quotes
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
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Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.
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It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
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I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.
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When I was 12 years old, I went to swim in a lake, and I almost died in that lake because the water was too deep - much deeper than I thought.
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Knowing that anything can happen at any time, I made sure the people that I love know that.
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The transition from the original Xbox to the Wii wasn't a big deal for my team. The business hadn't changed fundamentally.
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Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.
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The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.
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My hair is such a statement that it's like a neon sign asking for trouble.
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Many of my early Vines and collaborations were with gay people.
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I remember sitting one time doing 100 interviews in a day, and they're all television interviews and they're kind of - and you just sit there and they bring these people in and out, and in out.
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Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.
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I have a nutritionist and a doctor. Everything is checked. Thoroughly. Everything I take is checked out first.
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I think the things about being with someone and knowing someone so well is that the things you love about them, you always will. The things that drive you crazy will always drive you crazy about them.
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It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.
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My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
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People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.
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But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.
