Douglas Glenn Colvin (Dee Dee Ramone) Quotes
If somebody thinks wearing pretty dresses onstage somehow discredits us that's pretty absurd.
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I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.
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I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.
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My wish is for gay to become less of a label, and more of just one of many great colors in the collective box of humanity.
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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
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In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator.
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Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.
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I always work on my abs, every single day. As Miss Universe, exercising your abdominal muscles is mandatory!
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American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.
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For a long time, I didn't think I wanted to live in the Ozarks or write about the region. It seemed to be a sure recipe for obscurity, and to be obscure was not my conscious ambition.
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It's not longer 'Look what I can do, I can do it better then you.' It's just I am.
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Sin thrives in the dungeon, but slap it on the table for all to see, and it withers rather quickly.
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A life isn't measured in hours or minutes. Its the quality not the length. All things considered I've been luckier than most. Almost sixteen years on Earth, and I've already had eight good ones here. I expect to have eight more before all's good said and done. Nearly thirty-two years total, and that's not too shabby
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I just adored working in London. It was in London where I first had the idea of making a film.
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They were tricky, those demons. Could they be trusted? Of course they could be trusted. She'd created them. She owned them. They wouldn't lead her astray.
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The Democrats smell blood and don't want to be told that it's their own.
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A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.
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The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life; and as some must trifle away age because they trifled away youth, others must labor on in a maze of error because they have wandered there too long to find their way out.
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Leave safety behind. Put your body on the line. Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes. When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say. Well-aimed slingshots can topple giants.
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He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
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The Nehruvian dream [the ending of poverty and ignorance and inequality of opportunity.] today has become a pungent necessity, inescapable necessity. In 1947, one could say that it was a dream, it was Gandhi's dream also. But now it has become an inescapable necessity for us to translate that dream into practice. And I think that dream cannot be abandoned. We have to pursue it and pursue it in realistic terms. I see that India can do it. And India must do it.
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The prime result of the growth of intelligence and of experience is to make one, as it were, objective toward oneself, to view one's own thoughts, beliefs and emotions with some humor and skepticism.
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If somebody thinks wearing pretty dresses onstage somehow discredits us that's pretty absurd.
