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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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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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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Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.
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The most erotic zone is the imagination.
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There are a lot of things you can do with a law degree background, but I just didn't have a passion for it.
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Like the disposition of planes, the proportion of these planes and their colors seemed to depend only upon chance, and I declared that these works were ordered 'according to the law of chance', just like in the order of nature.
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Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture. We can either excavate it by hand, or we can have the wind excavate it for us.
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Much as he is opposed to law - breaking, he is not bigoted about it.
