Clare B. Dunkle Quotes
For how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and watched other people die?
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
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Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.
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In the urgent aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, with more attacks thought to be imminent, analysts wanted to use 'contact chaining' techniques to build what the NSA describes as network graphs of people who represented potential threats.
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The waves of religion based on terrorism in the 1990s are based on the tormented response of a mutilated Muslim society whose progressive forces have been savagely emasculated. Why on earth is the Arab world so hostile to women? Why can it not see women as a force for development?
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The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.
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Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.
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Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.
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As we all know, sequels can be tricky.
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I feel like people start to believe things that people say about them and start to think they're really important. If you have a family that is down to earth and cool, I don't see how you can be like that.
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As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the '70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.
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Afterwards, when the match is over, I have my family and my friends. I have fun like a normal person.
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I discover that my friends think only of my apparel, and those upon whom I have conferred acts of kindness prefer to remind me of my errors.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.
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I hope one day when I say I'm from Estonia, people don't say: 'What? Where's that?'
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For how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and watched other people die?
