Dennis Flanagan Quotes
We liked the title for itself, and although the magazine was then in sad shape, it had seen great days and would give us a ready-made history.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.
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If it hadn't worked out professionally, I would be teaching music theory and composition in a small college somewhere and playing drums in a jazz trio at the Holiday Inn on weekends, and I'd be happy there, too.
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I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
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I don't mind other guys seeing movies I want to see and then writing about them. That's fine, especially when it's the New Yorker's Anthony Lane, because he knows this stuff pretty well.
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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I really love all types of music. I'm really open to that. I really love Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake and some James Taylor and Elton John stuff.
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I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
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Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
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False history gets made all day, any day,the truth of the new is never on the newsFalse history gets written every day...The lesbian archaeologist watches herselfsifting her own life out from the shards she's piecing,asking the clay all questions but her own.
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I'd say it's even harder to cater to Hispanics than to the lesbian or gay community. We're so culturally separated: Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, Venezuelans. We're all so different.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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You have to write a book because you believe it has helped you, because you believe it has helped others personally and you are dying to share with it others because you know it will add value to their lives. You write it for them like a gift. You don't want anything from them. You don't want them to do anything for you. You don't even care if they all share the book with their friends, they don't all have to buy them. You're just dying to share this idea with people. Your challenge is to write it in a way that is compelling, enjoyable to read so that they will get the idea.
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We liked the title for itself, and although the magazine was then in sad shape, it had seen great days and would give us a ready-made history.
