R.A. Dickey Quotes
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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I'm incredibly humbled that the leader of the modern liberty movement and strong conservative leader Congressman Ron Paul is backing our campaign.
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I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'
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I never learned how to be adequately black. I never learned how to be black at all.
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Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.
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What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.
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I have really long hair, so I don't cut it all that often. Sometimes, when I'm working, I just have the stylist on set trim it for me. I don't dye my hair. When I was a teenager, I dyed my hair five colors at one time. It was all different shades of red going from more orange to more purple. I thought I looked so cool.
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I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to be hard to write all day and then come home and write fiction.
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We have many identities, and we can't be authentic to them all. The best we can do is be sincere in our efforts to earn the values we claim.
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I used to watch 'Coming to America' every day after school. I have full-on long-running inside jokes with friends and family about different scenes in that movie alone. Also, my brother and I loved 'The Golden Child,' so, yeah: I was a huge fan of Eddie Murphy growing up.
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You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music.
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Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.
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It is in this sense that Franklin says, 'war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.'
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I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.
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Don't waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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I'm obsessed with eyeliner - the darker and kohl-ier, the better.
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A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather than less.
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Average feels safe but it's not. It's invisible.
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Market mechanisms are totally irrelevant when resources are used to serve a larger purpose, especially for the underserved, unserved, or marginalised.
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The # knuckleball can be a metaphor of what it's like to let go.
