Douglas Glenn Colvin (Dee Dee Ramone) Quotes
Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.
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In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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I can't avoid the interest in the fact that I'm an injured female soldier.
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The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.
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One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.
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My works have always been unjoined. People were always making variations of my works, and I just said, "I don't want to know." You can't put limits on those pieces. You can't be there all of the time when they're installed.
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I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it.
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The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death.
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New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.
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Well, think back," said Harry. "Have you ever let it slip that you'd like to go out in public with the words 'My Sweetheart' round your neck?
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There were certain people who were out to get me. I know who those people were. They exist, believe me. They know that I know. They spent millions of dollars in order to try to get rid of me. I'm happy they lost most of their money.
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I'm one of those artists that people take my music without my consent. People love to snatch my music and do things on their own. You got people that put me on beats I never rapped on. I just feel that it's a bad thing.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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When I voted against the cap-and-trade bill, the phone rang and it was the chief of staff of the president of the United States of America, Rahm Emanuel, and he started swearing at me in terms and words that I hadn't heard since that crossing the line ceremony on the USS New Jersey in 1983.
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Praise is a contradiction of pride. Pride says 'looks at me,' but praise longs for people to see Jesus.
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It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
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Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.
