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Dawned Quotes

The moment clarity arrives, and what people do with it.

These dawned quotes capture the instant something becomes clear — realizing that your own voice is the only one you're truly responsible for, or recognizing, in a hard moment, the sheer will it takes to keep going and choose to survive.

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Be yourself. I had this three-week period where I wore this straw fedora. I thought it was what chicks wanted. And then it dawned on me that I was trying to be something that I wasn't, so I took the...

Quotes by Adam DeVine

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Somebody has always wanted me to speak as a voice of black America, but it has dawned on me that I can only speak for myself.

Quotes by Yolanda King

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It dawned on me then that you either had to survive apartheid, or you had to perish with it. And I decided to survive.

Quotes by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and...

Quotes by Vernon L. Smith

Day Quotes

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It never dawned on me I would do anything but show business.

Quotes by Toni Basil

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Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - could be as heavy as anything that comes through a Marshall...

Quotes by Tom Morello

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I started out making skateboard videos. Soon, it dawned on me I just wasn't that great at skateboarding. So I put down the skateboard and just kept going with the camera.

Quotes by Steve-O

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I grew up around food and in a restaurant, so it never dawned on me that this was a thing to do; it just was. Then I found it as a profession in my mid-twenties after years of bad decisions...

Quotes by Roy Choi

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Roads are necessary, but the fact that we don't fully recognize that when you build a road you're doing more than building a road - you're building the future development of your city. And, that's what's never dawned on people....

Quotes by Richard Lamm

Great Quotes

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When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, just because of the way I am, I can't stop talking, and part of the problem is that anything...

Quotes by Paula Poundstone

Other reflections are gentler, recalling ordinary childhood mornings that opened up bright with fresh excitement and not a worry in sight. Explore our Day and Life quotes for related reflections.