Danny K. Davis Quotes
I grew up in rural Arkansas, and I'm afraid that begging is not part of our characteristics.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
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I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.
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As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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I feel that we, as Indians, have a knack for loving a stereotypical, sobbing, sympathy-seeking personality. I feel that we need to promote quirky, cool and youthful talent. We have to stop propagating the sob-story angle of celebs, where they try to be larger-than-life. That is very outdated. It is so boring that it puts you to sleep.
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.
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We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
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I have but one rule at my table. You may leave your cabbage, but you'll sit still and behave until I've eaten mine.
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Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.
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I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they're loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I've had them leap out of a lavatory while I've been sitting on it.
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You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.
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I grew up in rural Arkansas, and I'm afraid that begging is not part of our characteristics.
