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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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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You don't have to bathe every day to look clean. It's just an illusion.
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I just encourage everyone to make real music and it will fuel the engine and the machine. Just make it real and put your heart into it. Don't make it because you heard someone on the radio.
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If you don't look like the ruling class, bring your inhaler.
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I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?
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I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.
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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.
