Dabo Swinney Quotes
It takes a lot to be Dabo Swinney, and not everyone can live this lifestyle. But, boy is it fun.
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
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I don't ever want to feel complacent.
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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
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As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypassed these kind of shows and gone straight to the Arena shows, but we didn't want to.
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I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things.
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I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the two smallest particles that there are when you split the atom, so I wrote a song around it. I even managed to fit the word 'hydrogen' in there. Isn't that a nice thing for scientists to call them though?
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Pucci was always my favorite brand when I was in college. It has a similar DNA as my label, both in the sexy, uplifting point of view and in the use of color and surface pattern.
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To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.
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There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.
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On 30 June 2010, the FSB broke into my office again. They unplugged the Internet, opened the window and left the phone off the hook, placing it next to my laptop. The message was clear: we are still here.
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You cannot experience the death of anybody
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It takes a lot to be Dabo Swinney, and not everyone can live this lifestyle. But, boy is it fun.
