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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Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.
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It would be very tempting to say that why paint because we have Michelangelo, we have Leonardo [Da Vinci], we have all these guys. Why waste your time, because most likely you're not going to be on that level anyway.
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Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.
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One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.
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He who hates himself is not humble.
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The # knuckleball can be a metaphor of what it's like to let go.
