Edward Dahlberg Quotes
Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the fact that I've got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it's important for people to watch someone normal.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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I have this threadbare caftan from the '60s that I got at a vintage store years ago - it's basically a muumuu. My friends are astonished that I wear it, but I love it. It's this light fabric that just moves with me.
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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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It's a balance. But you have to have your cheat day; you have to take your time to have the pleasure. Otherwise, what's the point?
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It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.
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My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I remember her playing 'Double Fantasy' quite often.
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It's emotional for artists who are women and people of color to have less value placed on our worldview.
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And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves.
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Men and women, boys and girls, are still bowing to the image of peer pressure out on their own Plain of Dura every week in every city of America.
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For those whose faith has faded, the reasons may be real to them, but these reasons do not change the reality of what Joseph Smith restored.
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Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.
