Douglas Glenn Colvin (Dee Dee Ramone) Quotes
I was a big troublemaker in the group. I put them through a lot of pain, but as much as I gave to them, they gave right back to me.
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I would love to do some theater.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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I started out doing musicals.
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So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.
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I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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Zionism is a revolutionary process. And in a revolution, you must be ready not to think too much about sentiments or human weaknesses.
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Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.
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The Internet was supposed to allow anyone to set up a web page and share their knowledge with the world. But in practice, it's too difficult and takes too long, and almost no one does it.
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The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
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I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.
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We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.
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I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.
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I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.
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I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!
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The formula for a hit is saying what people want to hear.
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It is, like the Mona Lisa, one of those masterpieces with which you will be outstandingly familiar long before you ever get to see it...it does not disappoint. It does not disappoint the first time you see it, nor the third time, nor even the 30th time...
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I always remember responding very emotionally to film. I had a lot of lonely time on my hands because I wasn't really the best-looking kid in my town and I sort of pined after girls. I had to sort of immerse myself in the arts because girls weren't particularly interested in me.
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That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.
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I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind's history must be scored bloody with heartbreak. This hankering for affection is a blight upon us.
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I was a big troublemaker in the group. I put them through a lot of pain, but as much as I gave to them, they gave right back to me.
