Damon Runyon Quotes
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If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.
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If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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I like to make people think a little bit.
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What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me – cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
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I don't know anything about music.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel free.
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I love running the floor and doing crazy dunks. I think I bring a lot of enthusiasm to the team.
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I always wanted to play some kind of instrument - piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn't have the time.
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'Srimanthudu' is a film very close to my heart. It's my first production, and I'm more than happy with its performance at the box office.
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I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.
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In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.
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When most people find themselves running afoul of the law, they might change their ways. When the Koch brothers found themselves running afoul of the law, David Koch decided to run for office so that he could change the law.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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I have told you that upon physical death the ego becomes the subconscious in the next existence, and that its conscious knowing is retained electromagnetically.
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Much as he is opposed to law - breaking, he is not bigoted about it.
