William Arthur Dunkerley Quotes
For death begins with life's first breath, And life begins at touch of death.
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When man can "wish away worrying," every desire will be instantly fulfilled.
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I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn't want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought, "Maybe I'll get better and eventually please the person who wrote about my singing." But then I thought, "I probably will never please this person. I should just do what pleases me."
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She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.
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The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.
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Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.
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Physical training is mental warfare!
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Wayside school is falling down, falling down, falling down, Wayside school is falling down my fair lady. Kids go splat as they hit the ground, hit the ground, hit the ground, Kids go splat as the hit the ground my fair lady . Broken bones and blood and gore, blood and gore, blood and gore, Broken bones and blood and gore my fair lady. We don't have to go to school no more, school no more, school no more, We don't have to go to school no more my fair lady.
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The worst thing was having to go to school on days "Mensch, Pia!" would be on TV in the evening. My classmates made fun of me.
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The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.
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We must be holy, because this is the only sound evidence that we have a saving faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
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People don't expect government to solve all their problems. But they sense, deep in their bones, that with just a slight change in priorities, we can make sure that every child in America has a decent shot at life, and that the doors of opportunity remain open to all. They know we can do better.
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What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.
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If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.
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It is an honor to appear on the side of the afflicted.
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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.
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I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.
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I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst kind of acceptance because it was never for how great I was or what I contributed. It was because of the way I looked.
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It's like shock on their face. Because they're like, 'I cannot believe I enjoyed your concert'.
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All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself.
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I have a theory that, for people of color or others who have been cut out of the master narrative, just telling your personal survival tale, your story, is civic engagement. It is a kind of political performance and is really crucial in that storytelling is how the writers connect with people and change. It's how we collect and add to and complicate the master narrative.
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Most players in this league say they want consistency.
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For death begins with life's first breath, And life begins at touch of death.
