Dawn Powell Quotes
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
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I couldn't speak any English when I first left Russia, and Intimissimi taught me everything. The team was like a family to me - they showed me how to model and how to stay in shape. They really believed in me.
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I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.
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My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
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Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
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Negative interest rates have been employed by many, many central banks.
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There's this whole feeling that women should be small and quiet and polite, and I don't think that's really gotten us anywhere.
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The Infinite alone exists and is Real; the finite is passing and false. The Original Whim in the Beyond caused the apparent descent of the Infinite into the realm of the seeming finite. This is the Divine Mystery and Divine Game in which Infinite Consciousness for ever plays on all levels of finite consciousness.
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It was hard for me to hear anyone saying they didn't like 'Billy Madison.'
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Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much - more and more.
