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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It dawned on me then that you either had to survive apartheid, or you had to perish with it. And I decided to survive.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 witness.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 stack. The combination of three chords and the right lyrical couplet can be as heavy as anything in the Metallica catalogue.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 and depression. The first step was going to the bookstore and learning about this craft. Then applying in kitchens and just getting to work.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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. It still doesn't, in a way.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 that gets said reminds me of something that happened to me one time, and invariably I cut people off and talk about myself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We made this movie for $17, and nobody got anything. So it never dawned on me that we would get real people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied journalism at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. I did my graduate work at Emerson in Boston, and I was actually a reporter for a year in New York and New Jersey. It dawned on me that I wasn't cut out for that line of work. I mean... there's a certain thing that really good reports have that I just didn't.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't beat Michael Phelps. A couple of years ago, I was racing against him and it just kinda dawned on me during the race that there was no chance I was gonna beat this guy. And so I said, if you can't beat him, find a race that he won't swim.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I really became interested in fashion, all I would look at in a fashion magazine was the ads. It only dawned on me recently that just looking at the ads really doesn't teach you everything you need to know about the fashion world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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- Nov 07, 2020