Dylan Baker Quotes
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I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.
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Many female politicians get intimidated by the aggressive behaviour of men. I don't. Not because I am a courageous person or anything, but because I see international standards, and I see that they are worth fighting for.
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This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
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Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
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The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.
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When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.
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When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You need to be imitating how they make their work, how they structure it, how they design the pieces. It gives you chops; it gives you moves.
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I shake hands on the first date.
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I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
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The popularity of leaders like Mandela was an invitation to counter-attack by the government. Mandela was banned from speaking, from attending gatherings, from leaving Johannesburg, from belonging to any organization.
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It doesn't much concern me if Tiger plays in the tournament or no.
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Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports.
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Sometimes, violent details have been eliminated from fairy tales simply because they were deemed too graphic. So one does not, at the end of Disney's version of 'Cinderella,' see the stepsisters' eyes get pecked and pecked by doves, because Disney wanted to market the story for wholesome family viewing.
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Voters have demonstrated time and again that candidates who buck the teachers' union are rewarded.
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Asks the Possible to the Impossible, 'Where is your dwelling place?' 'In the dreams of the impotent,' comes the answer.
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The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.
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I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like that. Just because of the history and the people there are way more knowledgeable than a lot of other cities. It's an amazing music scene with some great bands and great musicians.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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If one took a role with the intention of, "I'll show them what I can do!," then it's not going to be good because the ego is going to just block everything.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.
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The war with Japan had been enacted in the game rooms at the War College by so many people and in so many different ways that nothing that happened during the war was a surprise-absolutely nothing except the kamikaze tactics toward the end of the war. We had not visualized these.
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I loved 'The Pitts.' I just loved it.
