Dave Obey Quotes
You don't have to dislike people you disagree with and it doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to have bipartisan friendships in this place. Life's too short to have it any other way.
Quotes to Explore
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
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Donald Trump intimidated the press and bullied the press.
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If I'm teaching deep things, then I view it as important to make people feel like they're learning deep things, because otherwise, they will still have a hole in their mind for 'deep truths' that needs filling, and they will go off and fill their heads with complete nonsense that has been written in a more satisfying style.
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Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future for myself and was terrified about what was happening to the people around me.
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There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.
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You don't have to dislike people you disagree with and it doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to have bipartisan friendships in this place. Life's too short to have it any other way.
