Debra Dean Quotes
Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends, you included, Julie, who choose poetry as their vocation. I envy your faith.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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Whether or not money can buy happiness, it can buy freedom, and that's a big deal. Also, lack of money is very stressful.
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We worked lightly even in the heaviest parts.
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I do know what it's like to worry about bills, I do know what it's like to worry about even finding a child-minder, never mind paying them.
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It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.
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I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it's not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.
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Much of good science - and perhaps all of great science - has its roots in fantasy.
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Look, I've heard a lot of people talk about me, they say I'm like Marmite. They like me, or they don't like me.
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In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are storming city council and county commissioner meetings.
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You can feel how much money goes into commercials by how swiftly they act on your mind. And they've got, like, a hypnotic quality to the way they present their products.
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If you love god, burn a church.
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The truth is, every single rocket launch off of planet Earth is risky.
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Reaching beyond where you are is really important.
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What did I do to deserve this?
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The costume designer designing clothes that helped the comedy in The Proposal, that sold the character. Each and every detail was so perfectly thought of, what wouldn't be here? That's a lost art.
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To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.
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I am constantly amazed at their support over the years.
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We're always looking for something.
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Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends, you included, Julie, who choose poetry as their vocation. I envy your faith.
