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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Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude.
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I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.
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To be a leader means to be able to move masses.
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Faith should be at the top of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. We’re so desperate for it we gladly allow ourselves to be shortchanged just so we can believe in something.
