John Dickey Quotes
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Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?
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People have to evolve.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.
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I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.
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Numerous have been the manifestations of God's providence in sustaining us. In the gloomy period of adversity, we have had 'our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.' We have been reduced to distress, and the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up.
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I'm kind of used to being around guys on set, and I grew up with a brother who treated me like I was a boy.
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I believe in the freedom of God's sons and daughters.
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I think there's something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend's T-shirt and underwear.
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If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.
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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
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Not knowing what one is looking for is pure agony. Too much analytical thinking, too much logic, too many meanings! Life has no logic, so why does there have to be logic to explain what it means? Also, what is logic? I think I may need to break away from analytical thinking; this is the cause of all my anxieties.
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You and I, 22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America. You're nothing but Africans. Nothing but Africans. In fact, you'd get farther calling yourself African instead of Negro. Africans don't catch hell. You're the only one catching hell. They don't have to pass civil-rights bills for Africans.
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On Iraq, on paper, there's not as much difference, I think, between the Bush administration and a Kerry administration as there would have been a year ago. There's not much of a difference between my position and George Bush's position at this stage.
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Much of the obscurity of our effort so far against terrorism originates in the now official idea that the enemy is evil and that we are (therefore) good, which is the precise mirror image of the official idea of the terrorists.
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The Reverend Pullman sat on the opposite side of the bench, wearing clerical garb and one of those unctuous smiles that proclaims a monopoly on truth.
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I'd love to live nonbiologically and move about at the speed of light and be in communication with a million people at once and create works of art that are grand and sophisticated and very human at the same time so all these types of things.
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Conceit is a disease That the doctors got no cure They've done a lot of research on it But what it is, they're still not sure.
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My fans are so funny, they make me laugh so much. I've got some really, really, funny, clever fans.
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Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.
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I've always wanted to do a travel show for people who never thought they could.
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There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate.
