Dennis Covington Quotes
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I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.
J. Michael Straczynski -
As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.
Abraham Verghese -
My painting does not come from the easel.
Jackson Pollock -
Jam! I love my jam. I've just had a batch of it come through, I've been making it.
Kate Moss -
The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
Daniel Gilbert -
The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
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I tried to commit suicide because I sacrificed everything for Hitler. And that man whom we sacrificed everything for left us all alone. If he had committed suicide four years before, it would have been all right.
Hans Frank -
Over seven thousand US veterans die of suicide every year, which is funny... false laughter... because you'd think they'd die over there, but they come home! Right? I thought that must be funny, because nobody was taking it that seriously.
Maria Bamford -
The State of Israel has faced obstacles and challenges to its very survival, with conventional military attacks leading the way to suicide bombers who have killed innocent Israeli men, women, and children.
Jerry Costello -
For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.
James Buchan -
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
Mark Twain -
If war production should remain the only way out of a long-term depression, industrial society would be reduced to the choice between suicide through total war or suicide through total depression.
Peter Drucker
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Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?
Walker Percy -
I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.
Lucille Clifton -
There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.
Oscar Wilde -
The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
Oscar Wilde -
It was the last game of the year and you were supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pencey didn't win.
J. D. Salinger -
Balance in large measure is knowing the things that can be changed, putting them in proper perspective, and recognizing the things that will not change.
Albert Einstein
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I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
Vladimir Nabokov -
Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of our beings. . . . If we remain obsessed with seeds and eggs, we are married to the fertile reproductive valley of the Mysterious Mother but not to her immeasurable heart and all-knowing mind.
Lao Tzu -
My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
Zendaya -
We did some promotion work in small European clubs last summer and really enjoyed it. It gives people the chance to see you up close. We see all venues as a different challenge and we have songs that can work in all environments, even if we have to change the arrangements.
Jim Kerr Simple Minds -
Knowing where you come from is one thing, but it's suicide to stay there.
Dennis Covington