Sean Dowdell Quotes
The shock value is gone from what was considered shocking even five to 10 years ago, which is why it's gone where it is today . . . it's easier to push the limits with something that is temporary.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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There's almost nothing you can't do with a cashew. Not only does it lend its nutty sweetness to savory dishes, it also gives desserts a deep richness.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.
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I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.
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My brother and I did theater in high school, and were both in Pennsylvania Youth Theatre. It was awesome. When you go to Los Angeles, it's a rough city, and it's hard. You drive around in your car in your own little bubble, and there's tons of rejection. Being from the Lehigh Valley helped because it was something so stable.
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
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There are times when you do a play when you are living in the character over a two-and-a-half-hour period or longer, and you come to the end of the night, and you can feel like you were hit by a truck.
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Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
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We need to encourage members of this next generation to become all that they can become, not try to force them to become what we want them to become. . . . You and I can't even begin to dream the dreams this next generation is going to dream, or answer the questions that will be put to them.
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We need to find secular ways to cultivate warm-heartedness. We need secular ways to educate ourselves about inner values. The source of a happy life is within us. Trouble makers in many parts of the world are often quite well educated, so it is not just education that we need. We need to pay attention to inner values.
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Texas is reportedly going to give college students the right to carry guns on campus. So I guess that next semester, every college student in Texas is getting straight A's.
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If your ambition comes at the price of an unbalanced life, that there's nothing else that gives you comfort but success, it's not worth it.
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Treat all men alike.... give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who is born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. Let me be a free man...free to travel... free to stop...free to work...free to choose my own teachers...free to follow the religion of my Fathers...free to think and talk and act for myself.
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We have been saying from the very beginning that we will not tolerate any action in Montenegro, ... We will continue to say that and to act if necessary.
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People still don't get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we had descended from apes.
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Life's a lot easier when you're dumb.
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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
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It's easier to write about a celebrity, a personality, than it is to dig in and write about the music.
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The shock value is gone from what was considered shocking even five to 10 years ago, which is why it's gone where it is today . . . it's easier to push the limits with something that is temporary.
