Danny K. Davis Quotes

I've been around low-income people all of my life. I mean, growing up, low income, the community where I've chosen to live, low-income.

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• One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.

  

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• For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

  

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• I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.

  

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• Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

  

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• I'm just someone who marvels at God.

  

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• When you speak directly at things and don't say you're going to try to do something or that you hope to do something, the universe will work with you. Think about it this way - a boomerang goes out and comes back to you if you throw it. If you throw it out at the universe, it will come back down to you on Earth.

  

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• The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.

  

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• All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.

  

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• Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

  

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• I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.

  

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• I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

  

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• The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

  

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• I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.

  

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• I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!

  

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• I'm convinced, that when you are a footballer you are a symbol. You have to be a superman in some ways, to send messages to people all the time, to the youth all the time.

  

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• The Republican Party is doubling down on this trickle-down theory that says, 'Thou shalt concentrate wealth at the very top of our society. Thou shalt remove regulation from wherever you find it, even on Wall Street. And thou shalt keep wages low for American workers so that we can be more competitive.'

  

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• Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.

  

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• Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

  

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• I've been around low-income people all of my life. I mean, growing up, low income, the community where I've chosen to live, low-income.

  

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