Eric Jerome Dickey Quotes
Once desire was turned on, combustion gave it a life of its own. Once it was turned on it became a raging wildfire, uncontrollable and uncontainable, the type of conflagration that had to be allowed to burn itself out.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
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Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?
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I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
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Shakespeare pulls on us and demands the best of us. You never successfully wrestle one of his plays to the ground and say, 'See? That's It!'
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I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.
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I'm a very jaded and cynical person.
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Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.
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The words of the Constitution … are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.
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The nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to stop. I rise to defend him from this absurd accusation by pointing out that he is obviously an atheist.
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I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.
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Ever since 'The Apprentice,' my life has gotten so much busier.
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For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.
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If I'm doing a story on how a single mother copes in a refugee camp, I'll go to her tent; I'll follow her when she's working, see what her daily life is like, and try to pack that into one composition, with nice light, in one frame.
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The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.
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I believe life takes us where we need to be.
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I'm not really the sort to reflect or look forward. I prefer concentrating on the now.
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Once desire was turned on, combustion gave it a life of its own. Once it was turned on it became a raging wildfire, uncontrollable and uncontainable, the type of conflagration that had to be allowed to burn itself out.
