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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It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
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What's great is that the picture is already taken before it goes public. It's in secret. The trust that develops from such a habit engenders risk, and you realise you're not as vulnerable as you thought. Once you become comfortable with being more truthful about who you are, the easier it is, the prouder you become. That's the way it unfolded for us.
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If I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a word or song, if I can show somebody he's traveling wrong, then my living will not be in vain.
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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.
