Stephen Dunn Quotes
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I suppose I am one of life's naturally clumsy people; I don't drop stuff all the time, or break things, but I'm just generally a bit flustered.
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How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and dental amalgams?
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Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions
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I decided I was going to be the first producer to have a manager. And those songs became the background of the first Project album.
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I can't explain why a bride buys her wedding dress, whereas a groom rents his tux.
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So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.
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My daughter introduced me to myself.
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The movement toward a holistic approach to community development has been long in the making, but the housing crisis has motivated further progress.
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I had the idea of a boy who was a wizard and didn't yet know what he was. I never sat down and wondered, "What shall I write about next?". It just came, fully formed.
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I like to walk into a house and go, 'Rip up the brown shag carpet and open up that wall with some French doors.'
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Can I, just one time, play the good guy?
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You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.
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One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.
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... if we take the universe of 'fitting,' countless coats 'fit' backs, and countless boots 'fit' feet, on which they are not practically fitted; countless stones 'fit' gaps in walls into which no one seeks to fit them actually. In the same way countless opinions 'fit' realities, and countless truths are valid, tho no thinker ever thinks them.
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Kid A is about an abortion. *laughs* It's about how our music is an abortion
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Language is a poor thing. You fill your lungs with wind and shake a little slit in your throat, and make mouths, and that shakes the air; and the air shakes a pair of little drums in my head—a very complicated arrangement, with lots of bones behind—and my brain seizes your meaning in the rough. What a roundabout way, and what a waste of time.
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Don't you open your mouth about the best!
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Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, unites or reunites; it cannot help but liberate or enslave. Even before prescribing, suggesting a future, saying what must be done, even before exhorting or merely sounding an alarm, thought, at the level of its existence, in its very dawning, is in itself an action-a perilous act.
