Donald Dunn Quotes
Elvis wore a halo. Otis Redding did, too. You knew you were playing with a star when you played with them.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.
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There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
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I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.
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It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.
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I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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As a society, we've evolved, and we've recognized that the American family structure has undergone enormous changes. Divorce is all around us, and who among us doesn't know someone who is divorced or has been impacted by divorce. It's not as scandalous as it was.
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The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
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I loved the old stories in National Lampoon, like the original story the movie Vacation was based on. I used to laugh at them until I cried.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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I love my co-hosts and the crew at 'The Talk.'
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I bury things in the back of my mind I don't really want to deal with.
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I'd go fishing and always pretend I would catch the biggest fish. I'd stay out there for hours after everybody else left until I caught something. When I shot baskets, I was always the coach and star player and always made the winning shot.
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Elvis wore a halo. Otis Redding did, too. You knew you were playing with a star when you played with them.
