Deb Olin Unferth Quotes
Humans, we just hop out of things, off things. We splatter ourselves in inappropriate places. Because we have nothing to live for. Because we want to destroy what we can. Because we want to be something we can’t. Because we don’t really believe we can die.
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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
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I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
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It is neither my intention to depart from the route of John Garang nor to change the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
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I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.
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I say I am stronger than fear.
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I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.
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I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.
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It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.
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I am a man in a hurry.
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I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention.
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No other player on this club with the possible exception of Bruce Walker has done more to put the Dodgers up in the race than Robinson has. He is everything Branch Rickey said he was when he came up from Montreal.
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The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.
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Sinatra asked me out.
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I just think gay men are looked at much less favorably than gay women. If you look at the overall stereotype, lesbians are sexy, and gay men are disgusting. Girl and girl is fine, and guy and guy seems to just be something completely different.
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I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.
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You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else’s narrative.
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Humans, we just hop out of things, off things. We splatter ourselves in inappropriate places. Because we have nothing to live for. Because we want to destroy what we can. Because we want to be something we can’t. Because we don’t really believe we can die.
