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 feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.
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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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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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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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I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation - memory.
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Looking at me now, it might be hard to believe that I didn't even have hair in my armpits when I graduated from high school. I guarantee you I was the last guy to go through puberty in my class.
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The whole spirit of 'Eddie The Eagle' is that it's the taking part that counts, not the winning.
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The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey.
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I don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.
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I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.
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You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.
