Dale Peck Quotes
It's nice to have something you think separates you from the mainstream and gives you perspective on that, but it can become very limiting at the same time if it's something you use to artificially define yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
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Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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They can say I have an opinion about something.
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There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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I had to be sure we were doing something tasteful.
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I blog because I have something to say.
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Everybody wants to be great at something.
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Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.
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I come from a family in which public service was something to aspire to.
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Can any sane person say that before something comes on the Net you must screen it? How can there be pre-screening?
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We're all grown women now; if we wanna do something, we can't be stopped!
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I'm really not a journalist, and I don't do a ton of newsy pieces. Occasionally I'll write about something that's going on recently, but I really don't do a ton of stuff that's tied to current events.
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Mistreatment of al Qaeda members and their friends and hangers-on is something I number among my moral concerns. But it's number 1,000,000,001.
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To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.
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In the big experiments, Atlas and CMS, we have something like 3,000 scientists each, and over 60 nationalities.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'
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What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious courage which Robert Shaw showed when he marched with you, men of the Seventh Regiment. It is that more lonely courage which he showed when he dropped his warm commission in the glorious Second to head your dubious fortunes, negroes of the Fifty-fourth. That lonely kind of courage (civic courage as we call it in times of peace) is the kind of valor to which the monuments of nations should most of all be reared.
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True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.
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It's nice to have something you think separates you from the mainstream and gives you perspective on that, but it can become very limiting at the same time if it's something you use to artificially define yourself.
