James Dickey Quotes
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I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I knew that if I didn't make some changes, I was going to go in the wrong direction.
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There's so much pressure, but I think if you really love it, if you truly love it, and it's your passion to sing, then that's what will get through. I think if you don't have that, you'll realise quickly.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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I think it's always very important to be comfortable and just kind of expressive; if you take fashion too seriously, then you lose the fun of it. I think you should always take the risk.
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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself.
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I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents' worth of time.
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I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.
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I am not one to turn down macaroni and cheese, even late at night. I love Italian food. I love pasta... A refrigerator full of water and Gatorade? Honey, that's just not gonna happen.
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How is clean, painless nonexistence any worse than clean, painless death?
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On being shown a relic said to be a bone of St. Elizabeth, he (Sigismund) turned it over and remarked that it could just as well be that of a dead cobbler.
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I'm beyond lucky to have fallen in love with my best friend.
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The Outsider may be an artist, but the artist is not necessarily an Outsider.
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People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.
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I'm not interested in the past or in talking about myself.
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I have made really some significant deals because I play golf.
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I have a great affinity for senior citizens.
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Moving to one show each season will significantly help to simplify many aspects of our business. Maintaining two separate, disconnected calendars has been a result of tradition rather than practicality.
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I wanted to earn a living wage and to see something nice about me in the 'New York Times.' I wanted my mother to be proud. I wanted all the things you want and also feel silly for wanting. I wanted readers to say they'd enjoyed something of mine - to see my photo in magazines where I'd seen photos of other writers.
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Scales are not allowed in my house.
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Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
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To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.
