Darryl Dawkins Quotes

I was a power dunker. I want to go straight up, put it down on somebody. I want everybody under there.

Darryl Dawkins

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• Somebody
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• The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Down

• So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • War
  • Strong
  • Leadership

• When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • God
  • May
  • Business

• The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Country
  • Control
  • Government

• The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Man
  • Healthy
  • Torture

• The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • City
  • Woman
  • Sex

• Corporate stand-up allowed me to make my own schedule and make money as if I was in show business.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • Money
  • Business

• I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Time
  • Feeling

• After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • God
  • Family
  • Day

• Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Change
  • Wall
  • President

• I worked at a job where 90 percent of my coworkers were Spanish-speaking, and some of them were only Spanish-speaking. My rule was if someone came into the office needing something – I worked in HR at the time – they had to bring a Spanish word to teach me. That was the deal.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Time
  • Job
  • Rule

• Most music careers slowly but surely go down.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Music
  • Down
  • Go

• Yeah, it's a lot harder to find a musical partner than a love partner.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Find
  • Partner
  • Musical

• If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you're listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Up
  • Music
  • Why

• My parents raised me to believe that when one door slams in your face, turn around because there's probably another door opening up somewhere.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Parents

• When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Walls

• I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Happy
  • Me
  • Reading

• I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Imagination

• For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Music
  • Light
  • Sorrow

• All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • God
  • Moral
  • Obligation

• Yet the Fascist State is unique, and an original creation. It is not reactionary, but revolutionary, in that it anticipates the solution of the universal political problems which elsewhere have to be settled in the political field by the rivalry of parties, the excessive power of the Parliamentary regime and the irresponsibility of political assemblies.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Power
  • Political
  • Unique

• My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• I feel like, in a lot of ways, 'Hidden Figures' is the book that I wrote and have been waiting to read since I learned to read.

  

  Margot Lee Shetterly
  • Book
  • Waiting

• I was a power dunker. I want to go straight up, put it down on somebody. I want everybody under there.

  

  Darryl Dawkins
  • Power
  • Everybody
  • Somebody