Dennis Oli Quotes
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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The more of what our music does violates the premise of its format that it's presented in, the better. So, hearing our music in the supermarket, a Muzak version, is great.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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Yashpal, writing in the nineteen-fifties, sought to indict this culture of men, Hindus and Muslims alike, who value their freedom and power over the rights and lives of women.
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I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
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My biggest asset is not cash - it's a large, growing, devout fanbase.
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I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.
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I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.
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Straight up. You can't mess with Jay when it's time to come play.
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If I were a customer, and I was given a dish with peppers, I would hate it. I also don't like blood sausage.
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The last thing we need is efforts by some politicians and the NRA to arm educators and allow more guns in our schools.
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My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to 'em in a minute.
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Conflict is the pursuit of truth.
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In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.
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The media know exactly what they're doing, focusing our attention on Arsenio's hairdo. We need to keep our brains brimming with rubbish. If we didn't, we might think about things.
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It was too hard, too messy, too complicated. I sort of lived in a self-imposed exile for a good many years. I went away to college, lived my own life, chased my dreams, tried to face some demons. I guess I thought I could do all those things on my won. I thought that because I was gay, my family, well, they'd hate me or they wouldn't understand me or they'd send me away. So I just sent myself away. It was easier for me to pretend that I didn't belong to a family. I tried to pretend I didn't belong to anyone
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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I don't want to play the fat guy or the friend for the rest of my life
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Our target is to get into the play-offs. If not, we want automatic promotion.
