Dave McClure Quotes
I don't know if we're doing the optimal things that we can to try and connect different people on the planet with different points of view and not be so angry at each other.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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I'm more a fan of my fans than I think they are of me!
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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There's always merit to having a debate.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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I'm a very vicious critic of myself.
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Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.
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Liturgy, in truth, is an event by means of which we let ourselves be introduced into the expansive faith and prayer of the Church. This is the reason why the early Christians prayed facing east, in the direction of the rising sun, the symbol of the returning Christ.
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The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death.
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It's very interesting how Washington works. It's not about speeches. It's about relationships.
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I don't know if we're doing the optimal things that we can to try and connect different people on the planet with different points of view and not be so angry at each other.
