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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I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
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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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To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.
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I have made a difficult journey and now I know all the risks I do not want anyone to follow my own path.
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Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.
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Whenever I play something, everybody just thinks that's who I am.
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I still make music. I still write music and I record music, I just don't trust music promotion [and] distribution right now enough to record a new set of diligently worked-upon compositions. I do trust the audience and the audiences very much.
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Our target is to get into the play-offs. If not, we want automatic promotion.
