Dave Anderson Quotes
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.
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I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.
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I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.
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I've actually enjoyed pitching on the road in the postseason. You go out there, and you're getting booed, and it's fun to try to silence the crowd.
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The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.
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I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I'm out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book.
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I think at first I didn't tell anyone I was writing something because I found so tedious the people who did.
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I've been left at the altar now a couple of times.
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We've all heard it: vegans are cool and plant-based dining is hot. What other diet can promise to keep you trim without working at it, clear clogged arteries, save the lives of animals, and do more to stem climate change than driving a Prius-or not driving at all?
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Normally, when one passes someone on the street who is in pain, one either tries to help him, or one simply looks the other way. With a photo there's no human decision; you're not there; you can't turn away; you simply gape. It's a form of voyeurism.
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Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more, more dialogue for me, and I'd always be saying 'No, less, less'.
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I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
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The week ahead is already programmed for fabulousness. Pray that your thinking be aligned with the force that makes it so.
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I didn't tour Europe, because I didn't have any label support.
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That's something I do, like, all the time. I just do backflips off things.
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Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.
