Andy Dunn Quotes
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I have always had eclectic obsessions: astrophysics, music theory, the Mongol empire and its history, and the history of the Silk Road, to name a few.
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It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.
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There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
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But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.
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There's a lot of judgement that can come from outside sometimes, and there's media scrutiny that is placed on a lot of women in the public eye, and I just couldn't care less. I really couldn't care less.
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What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
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I want to play until the end.
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My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.
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I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.
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I went to Carnegie Mellon.
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I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards.
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Nonprofits are the intermediaries between generosity and social change.
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The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school in the 1960s may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
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The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.
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In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
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We are not compelled to believe in biological uniformity in order to affirm human freedom and dignity.
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There are a lot of problems in this country having to do with permissiveness.
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The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
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God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.
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Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.
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The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of the race, at least in mixed company, are features of African American life that predate affirmative action and arise outside of its presence.
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The loudest voice in the room, sometimes, is the absent voice of the silenced.
