David Dinkins Quotes
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
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I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.
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I actually studied literature at university, so I'm much more of an arts-based person, but I remember I actually did enjoy physics because you got to do weird experiments. I remember we did this thing with static where we all had to put our hands on this static ball to see that your hair would all stand on end.
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That's a real problem when people bring exotics into their homes. Sometimes it's by accident, but sometimes it's on purpose.
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I like Sprite a lot, but I try not to drink it. My mom doesn't want me to drink Sprite because it's unhealthy. So she always has me drink water, but it's hard not to!
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Nature knows best.
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I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?
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That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.
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I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty.
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My interest is in making sure we‘ve got the kind of comprehensive energy policy that can bring down gas prices. If, in order to get that passed, we have to compromise in terms of a careful, well-thought out oil strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental damage. I don't want to be so rigid that we can't get something done.
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I have lots of records, quite a collection, actually, that I stole from my mom. I have the original 'Thriller' album and I have a really great 'Elton John's Greatest Hits,' and I also have a N.E.R.D. album. Records sound more original. They have more edge.
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I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'
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I don't need a trailer; I don't need to have the luxuries of what is Hollywood, which is why I'm probably not so desperate to get there.
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My brother Carl became a physicist; I became an economist.
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As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.
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You can't twist Al Sharpton's arm.
