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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Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
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The English may love gardening and fishing, but they have never struck me as being close to nature. Their way of expression is 'the hollyhocks are awfully good' sort of thing, all done in very good taste. The savagery of nature is something they don't dwell upon.
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You can't go home with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You don't sleep with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You don't get hugged by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and you don't have children with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I want what everybody else wants: to love and to be loved, and to have a family. Being in love has always been the most important thing in my life.
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The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.
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Margaret Thatcher was very good for the arts in so far as it gave people a real focus for something to be against.
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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.
