Douglas Glenn Colvin (Dee Dee Ramone) Quotes
Billboard called my solo album, 'Standing In The Spotlight,' a great party album and even said that my raps put the Beastie Boys to shame.
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple.
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From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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I grew up in Ohio. I was born in a suburb of Oakland, but I grew up in Ohio.
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What almost halved the support for the Labour Party was the feeling that it has lost its traditional common sense and its humanity to a new breed of sectarian extremism.
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Well, its very exasperating when you can't get it right.
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I saw an advertisement to work for a Swedish institute in Karachi in Pakistan. I had just been offered a permanent assignment, teaching in Oulu. But I felt, 'My God, I am not going to stay here forever.' You know why? Because I was following international events.
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I've seen a lot of people - for example, Lindsay Lohan - who got into the wrong crowd. I always have my eye on what I want. And I don't want anything to distract me from that.
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Billboard called my solo album, 'Standing In The Spotlight,' a great party album and even said that my raps put the Beastie Boys to shame.
