Darryl Dawkins Quotes

I'm six foot eleven. My birthday covers three days.

Darryl Dawkins

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• I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• When I was maybe 22, 23 years old or so, I was sort of floating in between New Japan, Ring of Honor, TNA - not really committed to one place.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Honor
  • New
  • Ring

• I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
  • Up
  • Family
  • Grow

• I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • People
  • Trying
  • Want

• When I first read the script for 'A Little Chaos,' I just loved reading it, as it is a really lovely, accessible, contemporary period film.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Reading
  • Period
  • Loved

• Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Real
  • Done
  • Why

• The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I believe whoever has the most energy wins. You need energy to win at your relationship, win in your career, win as a parent, win at being your highest potential self.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Believe
  • Career
  • Energy

• I know why jobs go, and I know why they come.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Why
  • Know
  • Go

• Our intention and aspiration is to continue building out thematic information about every subject - basemaps, imagery, demographics, landscape data, etc. - so anyone can use it to access thousands of authoritative maps.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Information
  • Building
  • Data

• I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

  

  Carl Rakosi
  • Work
  • Love
  • Poet

• I'm so excited about 'Shattered;' it's something I've really enjoyed working in, and it's very different from anything I've done before. I've always been a character actor and done a lot of support work. I've never really been the lead actor, so I'll try and use what I've learned along the way from the other projects.

  

  Callum Keith Rennie
  • Work
  • Different
  • Done

• I got my story, my dream, from America. The hero I had is Forrest Gump... I like that guy. I've been watching that movie about 10 times. Every time I get frustrated, I watch the movie. I watched the movie before I came here again to New York. I watched the movie again telling me that no matter whatever changed, you are you.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Time
  • America
  • Movie

• When I was growing up in Russia, my grandmothers would cook the best pancakes in the world, the best meatballs, the best dumplings.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Up
  • World
  • Growing

• So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

  

  Anna Neagle
  • Alone

• My mother always bought our birthday gifts.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • Mother
  • Birthday

• I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Thoughts

• Money is just the poor man's credit card.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Money

• My great-grandmother lived to be 100 years old, so I got to know her. She always sent us birthday cards that had $2 bills inside - we kept them for good luck.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Grandmother
  • Birthday
  • Cards

• Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

  

  Socrates
  • Time
  • Lives
  • Days

• If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Me
  • Guitar
  • Huge

• Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

  

  Plato
  • Up
  • Learning
  • Evil

• I'm six foot eleven. My birthday covers three days.

  

  Darryl Dawkins
  • Birthday
  • Days
  • Eleven