Dwight Gooden Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
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I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.
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In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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I'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful.
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With the winding down of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States now has an opportunity to implement real defense reforms without having a serious impact on immediate battlefield needs.
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I grew up in a few houses because my dad was a builder, so we used to build and sell quite a lot.
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The message was always, 'It's good to be pretty, but don't look like you're trying to be pretty!' Inherent in that is a lot of misogyny, I think, because the implication is, 'You must work hard to achieve a feminine ideal for which society has nothing but contempt.'
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My father is very dry and very quick-witted, and my mother is very silly. It was the perfect combination because I got an education in physical and verbal comedy.
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My father helped me become a ballplayer and take the good with the bad.
