Douglas Glenn Colvin (Dee Dee Ramone) Quotes
Because I'm quiet, people think I'm really cold, or rude, or snobby. But I'm literally scared to talk to them.
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.
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Good things happen when you meet strangers.
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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I'm extremely superstitious.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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Being spontaneous is a blessing.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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The Reserve Bank cannot just exist; its ability to say 'no' has to be protected.
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You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.
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The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
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One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.
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As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
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The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the illustration.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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Because I'm quiet, people think I'm really cold, or rude, or snobby. But I'm literally scared to talk to them.
