Ian Anthony Dale Quotes
I was one of the only people of color at my grade school and also my high school. It's weird recollecting on my childhood, I think, because my brothers are all white. We all share the same father but different mothers. I guess I kind of associated white, but I was occasionally reminded in a really negative way that I wasn't.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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I always played to win.
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With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
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Childhood doesn't have to be perfect, and children don't have to be beautiful. From a bit of grit may grow a pearl, and if pearl production doesn't materialise, the outcome will still be preferable to the shallowness of vanity.
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Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that.
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One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because poetry helps him see something in the world that he might not have seen before.
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I was one of the only people of color at my grade school and also my high school. It's weird recollecting on my childhood, I think, because my brothers are all white. We all share the same father but different mothers. I guess I kind of associated white, but I was occasionally reminded in a really negative way that I wasn't.
