Darryl Dawkins Quotes
I was a power dunker. I want to go straight up, put it down on somebody. I want everybody under there.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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Corporate stand-up allowed me to make my own schedule and make money as if I was in show business.
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I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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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.
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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.
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Most music careers slowly but surely go down.
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Yeah, it's a lot harder to find a musical partner than a love partner.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We thought that he was going to be - I shouldn't say this at Christmastime - but the next messiah.
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Why she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday.
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It's hard to accept the truth, especially about yourself.
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My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures.
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Every power grab is the new base camp for the next power grab.
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Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.
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I was a power dunker. I want to go straight up, put it down on somebody. I want everybody under there.
