Daniel D. Palmer Quotes
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
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Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
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I've never been much for theory and scales.
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I think fiction rescues history from its confusions.
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As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
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I don’t put myself on a pedestal, I put the artist on the pedestal. I’m servicing the artist. I want to give you an experience. I want you to walk around and say “I feel happy doing art for a living.” No matter what the ups and down, my job is to make the artists be the best they want to be.
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The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
