Stephen Dunn Quotes
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.
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The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.
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I've always been someone who some people like and some people don't like.
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
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The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
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I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.
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When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.
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I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.
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Women who are too easy to attract are perceived as less desirable.
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...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.
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How did you explain a thing it had not occurred to you to question? A thing you just knew, clear through to your soul?
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Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
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Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.
