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?
Quotes to Explore
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Be who you are and be that well.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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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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I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture.
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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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There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.
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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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It's bad to be labeled just another singer-songwriter.
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'Midnight Cowboy' is an exquisite piece of filmmaking. It's insane.
Dito Montiel -
To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. And if you no longer need them, then that is neither wasteful nor shameful. Can you truthfully say that you treasure something buried so deeply in a cupboard or drawer that you have forgotten its existence?
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The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.
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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?
