Donald Dunn Quotes

When I heard BB King's 'Sweet Sixteen,' I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player.

Donald Dunn

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• The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

  

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• When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.

  

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• I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.

  

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• I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.

  

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• Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

  

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• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

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• I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.

  

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• I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

  

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• My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.

  

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• I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.

  

  Young Buck
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• I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

  

  Vera Farmiga
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• The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.

  

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• You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it.

  

  Samantha Morton
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• I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough.

  

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  • Long
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• I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.

  

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• Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.

  

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• To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

  

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• I think before 'Saw' came along, there really wasn't a movie franchise that actually went out there and said, 'We're going to come out with one every year during Halloween and make that our trademark.'

  

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• Don't let your heart depend on thingsThat ornament life in a fleeting way!He who possesses, let him learn to lose,He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Life
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• The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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• I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

  

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• I might not be a psychiatrist, but I am convinced that sex is not as important as we tend to make it. First there is that little feeling, that little red flame, called love. Blow on the flame and make it get bigger like a fire, don't blow it out like a candle.

  

  Xaviera Hollander
  • Important
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• When I heard BB King's 'Sweet Sixteen,' I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player.

  

  Donald Dunn
  • Player
  • King
  • Sweet