Dean Lewis Quotes
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Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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The principal did not like the fact that the teachers would take my side. I always left an impression when I left the school - not for who I was but for what I did there.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.
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Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.
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I'm very happy with my life and career, but I do find myself having serious attacks of nostalgia, and I don't quite know why. Even though I've got to travel the world and do amazing things, I still want to go back to my teenage years and change little aspects of it. It's strange, but it does continue to bug me.
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I always say that people are like peanut shells on the ocean: the waves will take them everywhere.
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It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
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No matter where you are, depression responds to the same treatment.
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I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question.
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Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
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When people ask me what's my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.
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So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.
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My mother played guitar by ear, and all of us sang except my father, bless his heart.
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I think it’s time to let you go, to let your heart find a home. I need to let you go.
