Douglas Bader Quotes
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I do have the sense that, although there may be no one way to write a novel, there are many novelists who are in fact part of some sort of larger literary community, whether in the form of a writing group or an MFA program, to name two of the more common forms.
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If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.
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After the Pearl Harbor attacks, around 120,000 Japanese Americans were jailed in internment camps. If an attack on U.S. soil were perpetrated by people who were not white and Christian, we can be pretty damn sure that racists would have a field day.
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In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?
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It's the federal government's job to secure the border.
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I still love records, and I've been fortunate that my parents bought me a record player so I didn't just have my vinyls to stare at!
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I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.
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I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
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I'm in no hurry to get old. But when I do, I'll be out to enjoy every last minute. I see myself at 90 in some nursing home, waving my walking stick about as I jive to Gene Vincent records.
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There's a truth about public service that is often unspoken and rarely understood - that the role of our elected officials is about much more than balancing budgets and ensuring the delivery of essential services.
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I love being a redhead. It's a rare thing, so I think there's a bond between redheads.
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My interest in protein breakdown as a research problem began in l955 at about the time I joined the Biochemistry Department of Yale University. It was known that proteins break down intracellularly in the mature animal.
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At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.
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What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct.
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I was molded, spent my time underneath a lot of goo. And then the bits and pieces were sculpted. It took probably 10 days to create each character after all those camera tests.
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Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.
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Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.
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One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it.
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If you had the height, you controlled the battle.
