Eric Jerome Dickey Quotes
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
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The first TV show I worked on was with the guys from 'Little Britian,' Matt Lucas and David Walliams, who did a show in 1995 I directed, 'Mash and Peas.'
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I was a heart surgeon before I came to Congress, and I've worked many holidays on behalf of my patients.
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Mrs. Montagu has dropt me. Now, Sir, there are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.
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The dimensions of this mercy are above my thoughts. It is for aught I know, a crowning mercy.
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Of all the characters I've played, I think I have more in common with that guy than with Reilly: Ace of Spies', referring to Carl Fitzgerald in Death in Brunswick.
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I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just... old.
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Who shall count up the evil brood that is born from power - the pitiful fear, the madness, the despair, the overpowering craving for revenge, the treachery, the unmeasured cruelty?
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You pass a program and get people dependent on it, making it brutal to get rid of. The key is not letting it get started.
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There is something exciting when you see people who are very formal talking with each other, and there is a sense that they have chosen to be that way. There is something masked that is more interesting to me than just people who are intent on displaying their uniqueness or whatever.
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I'm kind of a laugh junkie. It's what I appreciate in life, because life is rich and sometimes it's hard, and I really, really love to laugh and gravitate towards people who make me laugh.
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In '48 when I left Metro, I tried to go back to radio, but somehow just didn't do well at it.
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I don't know how you feel, my brethren and sisters, but I'd rather be dead than to lose my liberty. I have no fear we'll ever lose it because of invasion from the outside. But I do have fear that it may slip away from us because of our own indifference, our own negligence, as citizens of this land. And so I plead with you this morning that you take an active interest in matters pertaining to the future of this country.
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Here's a thought: what if we ban the word 'healthy food' from our culinary vocabulary? I'm not talking about banning foods that are considered healthy. I'm talking about changing the way we think about food overall.
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I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me.
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We are like the explorers of a great continent, who have penetrated its margins in most points of the compass and have mapped the major mountain chains and rivers. There are still innumerable details to fill in, but the endless horizons no longer exist.
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Sovereignty must be redefined if states are to cope with globalisation.
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Best way to deal with fear is to face the nightmare!
