Darryl Dawkins Quotes
Stevie Wonder used to come the ball games and they would have a guy sitting with him. And the guy would be holding on to his arm, telling him what's going on, and he would say, "Hey, the big chocolate guy just put down a thunder dunk. The chocolate guy with another monster dunk." And Stevie Wonder actually gave me the nickname Chocolate Thunder.
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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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I don't have a problem with recognition... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.'... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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The movie business is a big gamble.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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Everyone is living for everyone else now. They're doing stuff so they can tell other people about it. I don't get all that social media stuff, I've always got other things I want to do - odd jobs around the house. No one wants to hear about that.
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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
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Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.
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I play to see what I can accomplish. I don't play for fun. I play to see how good I can be.
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I aim for a lifetime full of movies.
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I don't think I ever thought of growing up to be anything other than a musician. There really wasn't a plan B. Well, a kind of a distant plan B was to be a Formula One driver, but there really wasn't an entry point.
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You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.
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'It's kind of a dream come true, because to me fashion is not just the clothes, it's all the accoutrements that go with it...
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You whom the soldiers beat,You who are all but dead,How the gods love youAnd I, alone in the dark,I was promised the light.
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To love another is somethinglike prayer and it can't be planned, you just fallinto its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.
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I really do feel like music is the only thing that I can do.
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Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
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I live in Chicago, but my work is always in New York or L.A., so I always have to travel for my job.
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Stevie Wonder used to come the ball games and they would have a guy sitting with him. And the guy would be holding on to his arm, telling him what's going on, and he would say, "Hey, the big chocolate guy just put down a thunder dunk. The chocolate guy with another monster dunk." And Stevie Wonder actually gave me the nickname Chocolate Thunder.
