Dave Mason Quotes
Our players were given a week off after Japan. Apart from Andrew Packer who has a back injury, they are all fit.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
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All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.
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When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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Everything and anything is valuable.
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The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow's flesh. As against them stand the Untouchables, who eat cow's flesh without compunction and as a matter of course and habit.
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To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.
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What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.
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The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese.
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When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
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I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.
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The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It's the fear of failing, the loss of face and a sense of guilt that everybody puts their faith in you and not coming through.
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In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.
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I think for most people, the audience probably couldn't tell the difference, but I know they [shots of visual effects] can be better. And the people working know they can be more precise. I'm still doing another round of sound mixing and color timing, pretty technical stuff. I think the movie [Life of Pi] is really presentable, nothing was left out that would take you out of the movie. I just need to perfect the job and I still have two weeks to go [to deliver final cut to Fox].
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If something fit in with what God had said to me, then I considered it. If not - no matter how attractive it appeared - I refused. The secret of following God's will, I discovered, usually is wrapped up in rejecting the good for God's best.
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I've learned that you don't need a lot in life. If it can't fit into a suitcase, you don't really need it.
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Our players were given a week off after Japan. Apart from Andrew Packer who has a back injury, they are all fit.
