James Dickey Quotes
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The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!
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Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
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The rise of the Internet and the camera phone have started to change what stories are accessible.
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I have seven disciplines to train for, and so I try to complete them all every week.
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I'm a part of your life. You might not know it, but I am.
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I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.
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Technology has enormous potential to address educational needs more efficiently, help teachers improve their performance, and enrich and individualize student learning.
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I love Denver.
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The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
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I have a drum set in my dressing room. I play drums to relax and have some fun.
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The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
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Carrie Underwood was just a small-town Oklahoma girl with big dreams in 2005 when she competed on the fourth season of 'American Idol.' She is one of the few true 'American Idol' success stories and went on to have incredible career success.
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Herbs deserve to be used much more liberally.
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The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
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A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.
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When someone turns to me and addresses me as 'our Queen', that word means a lot to me because it makes me feel that they know my life is theirs. My joy is their joy. My worries are their worries. If the word 'queen' means something to me, 'our queen' means everything to me.
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Reason tells us that creation never can be perfectly happy. So long as it is incomplete it must put up with imperfection and sorrow. It can only be perfect when it ceases to be creation, and is God. Do our prayers dare go so far?
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There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.
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I believe each person is more creative than he or she has ever imagined.
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The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.
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Talking doom and gloom all day no longer fit who I was as a person.
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The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.
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I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please?
