Eric Jerome Dickey Quotes
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
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The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
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You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
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A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.
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I have no problem with nudity. I can look at myself. I like walking around nude. It doesn't bother me. I see all the people walking around nude; it doesn't bother me.
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In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as parochial as the horizon Newton had to settle for in his day, but no doubt there will still be good questions whose answers elude us.
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As a general rule, governments are unlimited in their powers. All free governments, perhaps all other governments, are entitled in some shape or other to make laws and to repeal or amend them.
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Afghanistan is where much of the al Qaeda journey began. It is the main site where Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar and their cohort rose to prominence fighting the Soviets in the 1980s. Afghan territory holds special significance to the group, which is committed to retaking it and re-establishing it as the base of a global movement.
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What is it in people, or just in people like me, that would rather let a lie go by, would rather wish it away or minimize it, than point it out and cause the liar embarrassment?
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All middle-income families use carbs to stretch meals, across any ethnic group - whether it's kugel or rice and beans or macaroni and cheese. I remember having pancakes for dinner. But as kids, we thought, 'Breakfast for dinner? This is great.'
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I think it's going to be amazing to see how the world of microbiology, molecular and cellular biology, and human physiology is massively changed by microgravity.
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The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.
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When our minds as people normally starts to wrap around things, we start to attach all these ideas to it that really aren't that necessary to the core of it, if you just experience it and kind of go through it.
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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
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I used to worry, 'I've lost my family.' They hated me for a while, but they're very resilient.
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Hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!
