Eric Jerome Dickey Quotes
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It takes a great man to be a good listener.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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I am only about winning and getting better.
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We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.
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I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.
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I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
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Fame is a distraction sometimes. You know, it's a distraction if you let it. So it's very important to stay focused, stay very connected to your roots.
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Being a former first lady doesn't prepare you to be president.
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Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
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My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.
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The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential changes in the experience of conscious beings, we can think about a landscape of such changes - where the peaks correspond to the greatest possible well-being and the valleys correspond to the lowest depths of suffering.
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New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.
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I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.
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I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.
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I've never backed down from a fight and I relish a good debate.
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We need laws that protect everyone - men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion...ah, persuasion.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems.
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When I was a kid my parents used to tell me, 'Emo, don't go near the cellar door!' One day when they were away, I went up to the cellar door. And I pushed it and walked through and saw strange, wonderful things, things I had never seen before, like... trees. Grass. Flowers. The sun... that was nice... the sun..
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Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world history is a dream-error, the unspeakable sorrows of mankind fantasies, and that we ourselves are but the toys of our fantasies. Fate is the boundless force of opposition against free will. Free will without fate is just as unthinkable as spirit without reality, good without evil. Only antithesis creates the quality.
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Resentment makes anything possible.
