John Gregory Dunne Quotes
What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
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Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
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It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.
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My mentality is: I'm going to do it. I'm going to eat a lot of food, and then I'm going to complain about it when I see myself on camera.
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The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.
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The injuries worry me because they all seem to be long term.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 462
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What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not.
