Brian Dunkleman Quotes
It's almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy: the great comedy that comes from great pain.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
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I always have to be writing.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
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I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.
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Right now the problem in Thailand is we have high debt, but we don't know how to earn the new source of revenue back to Thailand. This is my job.
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Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.
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All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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I respect coaches; I respect what good coaches do. I know that you don't learn to be a coach in an hour and a half.
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I would rather be physically disabled obviously than mentally. I would rather be paraplegic than nuts. And it is a terrifying prospect and actually the longer we live the more likely it is that that's how we will go and that's a very painful thing to contemplate.
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I think the saddest moment in my life just happened two months ago. My old nightclub partner passed away, Phil Erickson down in Atlanta. He - I owe him everything. He put me in the business and taught me about everything I know.
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A community that sees so clearly its own disadvantage or its own hardships also has a harder time seeing its potential: its ability to work together to change the community and change their lives.
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It's almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy: the great comedy that comes from great pain.
