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I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was, I think, 15, 16. They tried to get her to have an abortion and she refused. So, my 'mama' adopted me, which was really her great aunt, which was really my great-great aunt, who was named Viola Dickerson. I was told that my mother was my sister. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#adopted #aunt #family #get #great

A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.' ↗

— Bill Dickey

#catch #catcher #day #did #every

In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day! ↗

— Angie Dickinson

#any #blankets #bravo #day #dissolves

I'm addicted to cosmetic surgery! ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#cosmetic #i #surgery

I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob. ↗

— Bo Diddley

#holding #i #just #left #lot

Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't. ↗

— Joan Didion

#arrangement #because #early #eleven #hemingway

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw your taxes. ↗

— Don Drysdale

#meant #now #played #screw #series

Many people don't fear a hell after this life and that's because hell is on this earth, in this life. In this life there are many forms of hell that people walk through, sometimes for a day, sometimes for years, sometimes it doesn't end. The kind of hell that doesn't burn your skin; but burns your soul. The kind of hell that people can't see; but the flames lap at your spirit. Heaven is a place on earth, too! It's where you feel freedom, where you're not afraid. No more chains. And you hear your soul laughing. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#heaven-and-hell #heaven-on-earth #hell #hell-on-earth #life-on-earth

While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right. ↗

— Bill Dixon

#her #his #informed #more #opinion

Most of us cherish freedom, but when we actually get the opportunity to make our own way it can be terrifying. ↗

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

#freedom #freedom