Duane Chapman Quotes
I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way.
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Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
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People forget that, for example, Adele wasn't always the Adele we know. Sam Smith wasn't always the Sam Smith that we know.
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I learned at a young age what chasing flavors meant, and I've been doing that my whole life.
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Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.
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I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother.
