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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• He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.

  

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• In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.

  

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

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
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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.

  

  Taylor Swift
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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.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
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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.

  

  Bear Grylls
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• I'm just someone who marvels at God.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • 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.

  

  J. B. Smoove
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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.

  

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

  

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

  

  Irving Berlin
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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.

  

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

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
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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.

  

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

  

  OMI
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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!

  

  Gabrielle Union
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• I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.

  

  Gavin Andresen
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• In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.

  

  Adam Carolla
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• When I was in high school I was a super serious athlete. I wasn't fun at all.

  

  Sean William Scott
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• At times, I've referred to Christ's miracles, and have said, 'Well, Christ multiplied the fish and the loaves to feed the people. That is precisely what we want to do with the Revolution and socialism.'

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
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• I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Thinking
  • Series
  • Originals

• I know a lot of people don't have their parents in their life - their mother, their father - but I've got the best two you could ask for, I swear.

  

  J. R. Smith
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• We actually believe Windows 8 is the new era for the PC plus. We believe with a single push of a button you can move seamlessly in and out of both worlds. We believe you can have touch, a pen, a mouse, and a keyboard.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Believe
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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.

  

  Danny K. Davis
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