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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Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege. But also, it gave the Chinese a national public sphere for people to, it's like a training of their citizenship, preparing for future democracy.
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And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.
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How valiant to deny the importance of money when it is had in abundance.
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I think the most horrible name for a crime has to be manslaughter. ... "I slaughtered a man! Just like a pig! Put him on a spit and put an apple in his mouth!"
