Dion (Dion Francis DiMucci) Quotes

I think one of the greatest compliments I've ever received was when a young kid came backstage at Joe's Pub, when I had the "Bronx In Blue" album out. He said, "What Jimmy Reed did for you, you do for me."

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• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

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• In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

  

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• I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.

  

  Karen Handel
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• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  

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• Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.

  

  Pat Summerall
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• Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.

  

  Barney Frank
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• I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
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• All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

  

  Carlos Castaneda
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• I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
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• I remember the absolute, joyous freedom I felt when I first went to college: I had no bedtime, no curfew, no rules - I loved it. I was in charge. I couldn't believe I didn't have to answer to anyone.

  

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• If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.

  

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• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

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• For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.

  

  Gay Talese
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• I love In-N-Out!

  

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• I started in theater. I would liken sitcom work more to theater work than I would, perhaps, to dramatic television. It's so quick. It kind of feels like the pace of a play.

  

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• I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration.

  

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• I didn't even know 'Vogue' existed when I was growing up.

  

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• Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

  

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• I think that acting is a very humanizing profession.

  

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• The meaning of your life depends on which ideas you permit to use you. Who you think you are determines where you put your attention. Where you direct your attention creates your life experiences, and brings a new course of events into being. Where you habitually put your attention is what you worship. What do you worship in this mindstream called your life?

  

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• For people to escape poverty for good, we need better policies that support work, strengthen families, and move America forward.

  

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• Your children should love the Lord, work hard, and experience the joy of trusting God. More important than leaving your children an inheritance is leaving them a spiritual heritage. If you left your children money they didn't need, and if they were thinking correctly, wouldn't they give it to God anyway? Then why not give it to God yourself, since He entrusted it to you?

  

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  • Children
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• I think one of the greatest compliments I've ever received was when a young kid came backstage at Joe's Pub, when I had the "Bronx In Blue" album out. He said, "What Jimmy Reed did for you, you do for me."

  

  Dion
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