Evan Dando Quotes
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent and does not exercise powers. Ultimately it is the political executive that has to answer.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.
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My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.
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I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.
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I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.
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People identify with other people for different reasons, and I personally am really comfortable around lesbians because, in some ways, we view women the same way.
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There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.
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My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.
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When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.
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We need to be creative, on the cutting edge, challenged, and it's really hard going. It's relentless, and we're relentless, and we have a history of breaking engineers, producers. I mean, people come out of working with U2 and just go, 'I just don't know what's happened; it feels like a lifetime has passed by.' And that's just the way we work.
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The type of music I like to sing is really those classic songs, those Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra, classics.
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Have a little faith. Don't give up.
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The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
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You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.
