Dave Itzkoff Quotes
I will say I highly recommend, if you want to write a book also, have a child in the midst of that process because it will really force you to organize your time.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
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I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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Immigration keeps this country young, it keeps it dynamic, we have entrepreneurs and strivers who come here and are willing to take risks, and that's part of the reason why America historically has been successful.
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I have always liked shows that have laughter in them.
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I love 'Battlestar Galactica;' I was a geeky kid. I was into Dungeons and Dragons. I had the 24-sided dice.
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Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'
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I take the market-efficiency hypothesis to be the simple statement that security prices fully reflect all available information.
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I will say I highly recommend, if you want to write a book also, have a child in the midst of that process because it will really force you to organize your time.
