Douglas Glenn Colvin (Dee Dee Ramone) Quotes
I think the Internet shortens the distance between people, and that can often lead to inappropriateness.
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I regrettably wasted time at university by being overwhelmed and intimidated by the talent of other composers. I felt stuck and didn't know what I was doing there. I enjoyed my experience, but I didn't grab it in the way I would now.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for everyone. And people should be moved by it.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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In boxing you never know who you're going to face in ring.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.
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I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.
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Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
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I want to be happy, to look back and feel I danced well at the end of my career and didn't dwindle off. It would be too sad.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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I love opera. I love jazz, especially Mingus. This makes me sound highbrow. I'm not.
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Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you're this, I dunno, scarlet woman they're all gossiping about.
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I'm not saying we need to stop immigration at all; people can come from wherever.
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I think the Internet shortens the distance between people, and that can often lead to inappropriateness.
