Kevin De Bruyne Quotes
A life of anybody is not perfect; there is always things that happen, and that is what makes it interesting.
Quotes to Explore
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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L.A.'s always been good to me.
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When you're governor, you've got to step up to the plate; you've got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That's the requirement. And then you've got to sit down and negotiate if the folks that you need to work with disagree with you on points.
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Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it's at the core of all our problems.
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Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.
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Fashion definitely has the power to change the world.
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Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.
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I know the Americans are inherently disposed against us, but when they talk with us, they will see that I am not the kind of person who would shoot nuclear weapons to the south, over the Pacific or at the United States.
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Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.
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I speed up past mirrors.
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Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.
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My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.
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When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.
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I have written more than 100 novels and novellas since 1983 - I was first published in 1985. There was an overlap of three years with my teaching career, but finally I felt good enough about my writing career to quit teaching and write full time.
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A life of anybody is not perfect; there is always things that happen, and that is what makes it interesting.
