Donald Dunn Quotes

Most of my school friends and even a few of my teachers called me 'Duck.'

Donald Dunn

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• Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Friendship

• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • School
  • Bad

• I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • Never
  • Gun
  • Intelligence

• I look back on some of my outfits, and I'm like: 'Why did I wear that? Where are my friends and why didn't they tell me not to leave the house?' If they had, I probably would've said, 'You don't know what you're talking about. This looks amazing.'

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Friends
  • House
  • Me

• We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.

  

  Kate Brown
  • School
  • High
  • Career

• Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.

  

  Patrick White
  • School
  • Myself
  • London

• Most of my friends in Nashville - almost all of them - seem to have had hits in the '70s, either as artists or songwriters or producers.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Friends
  • Almost
  • Seem

• Sadly, half of marriages end in divorce. Half of my girl friends and male friends have been through one, and their kids are doing great. There's no shame around it - unless you want to project that on to yourself - but certainly there's no longer cultural shame. Everyone is walking through it.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Friends

• The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • School
  • You
  • Drama

• 'School of Rock' was just once in a lifetime things; I want to be a doctor, actually. I'd go an do the sequel if they asked me to.

  

  Caitlin Hale
  • School
  • Rock
  • Doctor

• School after Labor Day is now the law of the land in Maryland.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • School
  • Law
  • Day

• I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Doubt

• There are signs that the Arab states are beginning to realize that a nuclear-armed Iran would be a threat to the entire region, and not just to Israel.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Beginning
  • Realize
  • Israel

• I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.

  

  Laura Marano
  • School
  • High
  • Kind

• I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • School
  • Happy
  • College

• To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can't think of anything better to do with family and friends than to be together to create something.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Together

• Bringing GIS into schools gets the kids very excited and indirectly teaches them different components of STEM education. That's been illustrated at school after school.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• Louis Tomlinson, who is a member of One Direction, his mum was a chaperone on 'Fat Friends.' So Louis used to come to the set with his mum, and since I was the only sort of young person around, we would kick a football around, things like that.

  

  James Corden
  • Friends
  • Football

• Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.

  

  Walter Lord
  • Me
  • Courage
  • Intellectual

• With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism, like you've got in Africa now and like you've got in Haiti. So what we're talking about is there has to be an educational program. That's very important.

  

  Fred Hampton
  • Important
  • Education

• I started walking at night with my sister in law which has been amazing. It really does something for you. It just kind of clears the mind, it just makes you feel better, things start to tighten a little bit.

  

  Ashley Scott
  • Mind
  • Night
  • Law

• I would vote to increase the debt limit if there was a corresponding level of cuts. And if there was some serious talk about a balanced budget amendment, which we as governors always had to deal with.

  

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.
  • Serious

• Most of my school friends and even a few of my teachers called me 'Duck.'

  

  Donald Dunn
  • School
  • Friends