Dennis Brown Quotes
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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What I support is moving Medicaid to block grants so that the states can drive that process.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
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Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.
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As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies.
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Every kid, every minority kid can be so successful if they focus on their education.
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History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
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For the nation to live, the tribe must die.
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I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.
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The abstract human mind will have to receive the intended impression by its own means. I always confine myself to expressing the universal, that is, the eternal (closest to the spirit) and I do so in the simplest of external forms, in order to be able to express the inner meaning as lightly veiled as possible.
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We have thought that because children are young they are silly. We have forgotten the blind stirrings, the reaching outward of our own youth.
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We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not safe in poetry. We fall back on the psychologic, the ethnic, the quota, and serve the perpetuation of the machine.
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I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.
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I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.
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You can't find the sound if you just love sleep.
