Danny K. Davis Quotes
People crown kings and queens at homecoming parades all the time. We do a lot of things in our society that are simply symbolic.
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Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views.
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People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.
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My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
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South Africans are caring, compassionate and loving people.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.
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Marriage is socialism among two people.
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I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions about what their expectations are - and not just financially - prior to getting married. It should really even happen prior to people living together or casting their lot together.
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You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
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I've moved around so much my whole life, and I've gotten so used to being the Other in situations - the foreigner, the outsider. The first time I've ever felt like there was no separation between me and the other elements was in music.
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Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.
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I go to all of the trade shows, know a lot of the people making marketing decisions, and I want to keep my finger on the pulse of snowboarding.
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People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen.
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The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
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I like to write, I like to do stand-up, I like to act.
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I swim every other day. That's my exercise.
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I was in detention a lot.
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People crown kings and queens at homecoming parades all the time. We do a lot of things in our society that are simply symbolic.
