Douglas Glenn Colvin (Dee Dee Ramone) Quotes

I'd like to congratulate myself, and thank myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.

Douglas Glenn Colvin Ramones

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• No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • May
  • Man

• The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  

  Jack London
  • Time
  • Live
  • Trying

• Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Best
  • Doing
  • Moment

• I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • God
  • Media

• I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Challenges

• The Mayo Clinic is one of the largest and most experienced medical centers treating esophageal cancer in the world.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • World
  • Cancer
  • Medical

• By any definition, what happened in Bhutan in the years 1989-93 was ethnic cleansing. The Bhutanese government denies this and has refused to repatriate any of those forcibly expelled.

  

  Kai Bird
  • Government
  • Years
  • Ethnic

• Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Power
  • Imagination
  • Innovation

• Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Stories
  • Desires
  • Fears

• A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Work
  • Art
  • Personality

• We support about 5,000 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with software, training, and technical support. We provide our software at virtually no cost to them, and they're lighting up the world with what they do.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Up
  • World
  • Support

• I am at a crossroads; I have always been against armed opposition... I have chosen civil disobedience. But I will apologize to my people if there are funerals coming out of prisons. I will criticize myself and I won't be the mayor of Diyarbakir.

  

  Osman Baydemir
  • Opposition
  • Civil
  • Disobedience

• In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage with others and share the fear, release the feelings, do fun things to take your mind off it.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Mind
  • Job
  • Fun

• The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Lost
  • Feet

• Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • World
  • Way
  • Virtue

• An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

  

  Edgar Quinet
  • Mind
  • Education
  • Body

• Paul here is unhappy because unhappiness is second nature to him but more particularly because he has not the faintest idea of how to bring about his heart's desire. And I am unhappy because nothing is happening. Four people in four corners, moping, like tramps in Beckett, and myself in the middle, wasting time, being wasted by time.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America; with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • May
  • America

• The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Age
  • Mystery
  • Greatest

• I ask you and all the leaders of the world: Would you act differently, would you keep silent and do nothing if you were in our place? Would you not resist if you were allowed no rights in your own country because the color of your skin is different to that of the rulers, and if you were punished for even asking for equality? I appeal to you, and through you to all the countries of the world, to do everything you can to stop the coming tragedy. I appeal to you to save the lives of our leaders, to empty the prisons of all those who should never have been there.

  

  Miriam Makeba
  • World
  • Different
  • Country

• With Fancy Bear, we have medium-level confidence it's GRU, which is Russia's military intelligence agency, and with Cozy Bear, we have low-level confidence it's FSB, the Russian federal security service.

  

  Dmitri Alperovitch
  • Confidence
  • Military
  • Service

• One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Time
  • Live
  • You

• As soon as I hear the word 'competition' I get serious and start doing everything that I can do.

  

  Maureen McCormick
  • Serious
  • Competition

• I'd like to congratulate myself, and thank myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.

  

  Douglas Glenn Colvin Ramones