Dan Wakefield Quotes
I feel as much of a stud as... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am.
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Countries that managed to rebuild commanding state structures after popular nationalist revolutions - such as China, Vietnam, and Iran - look stable and cohesive when compared with a traditional monarchy such as Thailand or wholly artificial nation-states like Iraq and Syria.
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On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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I am very much a Republican.
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If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.
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Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.
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I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
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I have to say I am a 'Strictly' fan, which is why I am in it. I've always watched it for years. I am not an 'X Factor' fan, and I just think it is a different show. One is about learning something new and having a great time, and the other is rather desperate.
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We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror.
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I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career.
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I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.
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My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.
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I'm the same guy. I'm trying make sure I focus on what I'm supposed to be focusing on which is playing ball. I'm trying all out. Everything else is just B.S.
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I can't narrow either one down to just one thing. I've rolled the dice and had both success and failure. I can tell you that right now we're on a roll with the talk show. Everything is good with the TV show.
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A great typeface is not a collection of beautiful letters, but a beautiful collection of letters.
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Friendship is more important than truth.
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The appropriation of the creativity-procreativity metaphor by women is a conscious challenge to traditional poetics and beyond that to traditional metaphysics, for the gynocentric vision is not that Logos condescends to incarnate itself, but that Flesh becomes Word.
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I feel as much of a stud as... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am.
