Dave Wakeling Quotes
I suppose reggae has always been a hopeful way to protest, and just because the world's tragic doesn't mean it's not beautiful.
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Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965, Johnson's principal goals were to win the presidency in his own right and to pass his Great Society legislation through Congress.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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I would've been a really big silent movie star.
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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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I like having those preseason games and exhibitions to really get ready for the regular season and get yourself off to a good start.
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In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
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I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.
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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
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I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.
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The fear of the Lord is the Beginning of Wisdom. This life is one great object lesson to practice on the principles of immortality and eternal life. Man grows with his higher aims. Let naught that is unholy enter here.
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EXCISE - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
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Nadine, honey is that you? Oh, Nadine, honey is that you? Seems like every time I see you Darling, you got something else to do
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Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.
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How does Macy Gray or Kid Rock not win over Christina Aguilera?
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If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem that may appear in your life, you should not allow the government to do it for you.
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I think part of growing up is not actually finding a fixed idea of who you are, but rather being like, "Oh, wait. I'm different all the time. I'm going to change every second and grow and be fluid." And that's okay.
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Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.
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I suppose reggae has always been a hopeful way to protest, and just because the world's tragic doesn't mean it's not beautiful.
