Dean Young Quotes

I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.

Dean Young

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• I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Pain

• After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Good
  • Book
  • Practice

• People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Doing
  • Need

• Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Real
  • You
  • Find

• I love the smell of a real Christmas tree - also, my mum's Christmas pudding with brandy sauce.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Tree
  • Christmas
  • Smell

• I can't drink anything but chocolate. I don't even like any milk but chocolate. When I eat cereal, I barely touch the white part.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Drink
  • Chocolate
  • White

• You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • World
  • Mind
  • Fear

• I had never danced all my life until I shot for my first song in 'Chirutha.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Life
  • Song
  • My Life

• There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures." The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Art
  • Why
  • Difficult

• It's nice when people say, 'God, I've been listening to you since 1963 or 1985, or whatever.' I appreciate anybody who goes out and buys music these days.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • People
  • Music
  • God

• On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people - Muslims and Christians - have suffered in pursuit of a homeland.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Hand

• Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Discipline
  • Self
  • Negative

• I saw how the Government was run there [in Africa] and I saw where black people were running the banks. I saw, for the first time in my life, a black stewardess walking through a plane and that was quite an inspiration for me.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Life
  • Government
  • Inspiration

• Everyone will be happier if fewer women are tied to abusive men, drop out of school, and live impoverished lives because of a random pregnancy.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Men
  • Women
  • Live

• Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable!

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Time
  • God
  • Thinking

• The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate the things beneath. [Fr., Le monde se paye de paroles; peu approfondissement les choses.]

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Appreciate
  • Satisfied
  • Beneath

• I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.

  

  Dean Young
  • Satisfied
  • Description
  • Russian