Donnie Wahlberg Quotes
Look, we are a rock group. But you should see all those things in perspective. People tend to blow up everything into ridiculous proportions. And then the fun is gone real soon.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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There are two types of people, you see. One type keep their heads straight, and look around as they walk. The others look up - at the tops of houses, at the eaves and the lintels and the roofs, which can tell you when they were built - and I've always done that.
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I always loved singing because I grew up in a very musical family. My mom wasn't able to do music professionally because her parents wanted her to get a 'real job,' but she played guitar.
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No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become.
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I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the band, and I brought my trumpet, and he was sitting at the piano downstairs waiting to join Dizzy's band. He had his saxophone across his lap, and he looked at me and he said, 'You want to play?'
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That's me, I'm emotional.
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Look, we are a rock group. But you should see all those things in perspective. People tend to blow up everything into ridiculous proportions. And then the fun is gone real soon.
