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.

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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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• 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 had studied the violin to a certain amount of success. At some point, I realized that I didn't really like the violin. I was only doing it because I could, and I was good at it, and everyone was encouraging me. But I didn't have a great love for it.

  

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• The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.

  

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• Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.

  

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• I've never followed a vegan or vegetarian diet in the past, but I think I could do it. It would not be easy. I have worked with nutritionists who have said a vegan diet is not necessarily all positive for your health, because you need nutrients you only find in meats. I believe in a balanced diet.

  

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• As in elections, the law pretended universal rights, while securing the interests of powerful houses.

  

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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