Eric Jerome Dickey Quotes
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Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are.
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Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.
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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted to talk about them, and all they wanted to talk about was Beethoven.
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In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion.
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I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.
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A desire for knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being, whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all he has to get knowledge.
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There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.
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The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.
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Our whole political machinery presupposes a people so fundamentally at one that they can safely afford to bicker.
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While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
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It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.
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I've worked my butt off. That keeps my feet on the ground - I'm the same Luis Fonsi onstage and at home cooking an omelette in basketball shorts.
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Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking about, what they're doing, what they're looking at - by paying attention to the small stray status messages that people are putting online.
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One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.
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So that there is no misunderstanding from my perspective, I will suspend any player who tests positive for an illegal steroid. There will be no exceptions. The (players) union is aware of that and they accept it.
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Jealously lives with insecurity!
