Armand DiMele Quotes
Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.
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I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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I love nature - it's probably my most favorite thing. I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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I love working and I love doing lots of things and a variety of things. It keeps your mind active... and you don't end up worrying about just the one thing. When I chew things over or analyze too much, that is when I can trip myself up.
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The great thing about Cairo is the vast majority of women wear some kind of head scarf, but they are also very fashion-conscious. They love bright colors.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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The only thing I change mainly is my sneakers. I love sneakers. But everything's sort of black or jeans. Jeans, always.
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I've tried singing like somebody else, and it never worked for me. The only thing that has ever worked for me was me being me, so either you love it or not.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
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Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.
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The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.
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The one thing that remains is looking in the face of God for ourselves.
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Then I saw Keanu Reeves in 'Much Ado About Nothing' and I know if he can do it, I can do it too.
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I don't want to leave skiing early. I want to feel like I've done everything I can do.
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I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time build a state that is-regardless of how unscientific this may sound to the ears of a political scientist-humane, moral, intellectual and spiritual, and cultural.
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I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.
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The leader's role is to define reality, then give hope.
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I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful.
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I believe there is an evolutionary impulse toward good that is etched on every human heart. It is placed there by the hand of God.
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Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.
