Danny K. Davis Quotes
One thing I always say when I discuss guns with people - if a gun is not present, it's generally more difficult to do irreparable harm.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I went to Briar Cliff College initially, and then I transferred to Georgetown University, because I was a Russian major, and I was one of two girls accepted that year. This was September 1969 - well, that would have been 1970 - into the School Of Languages And Linguistics in Georgetown.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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Whatever you are, whatever gifts you end up getting, you’ll find that time will make those changes less scary as well.
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Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.
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I tell my students based on my experiences in Hollywood, sure, you can always move to L.A. and try to work with the system, and people do that, but chances are if you want your story in film with characters of color, you will have to make that movie yourself. Find a way to make it yourself. Not just screenwriters, but also producers.
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There are, in fact, very few organic zinc compounds; only the first members of the series, which correspond to the simplest organic radicals, can be prepared without too much difficulty, but they have the disadvantage of being spontaneously inflammable in air and are consequently very dangerous to handle.
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Racism has always existed, and a big part of it is people just not knowing others. I think humans change other human's minds, and it's hard for someone in the middle of America to hate Syrian refugees if they've been able to befriend them.
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One thing I always say when I discuss guns with people - if a gun is not present, it's generally more difficult to do irreparable harm.
