David A. R. White Quotes
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Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.
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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout.
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I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.
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When I go to Indian reservations in the West, and especially to the Pine Ridge Reservation, I sometimes feel unsure where to put my foot when I open the car door. The very ground is different from where I usually stand. There are fewer curbs, fewer sidewalks, and almost no street signs, mailboxes, or leashed dogs.
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I'm stubborn; I know what I want. I'll dedicate all my efforts to achieving it.
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Irrelevance is the feeling that an employee gets when they don't see how their job really makes a difference in someone else's life in some large or small way.
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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
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I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
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I'm thought of as a celebrity. Everything I've ever done... has been for children. As long as I was working constantly, that was fine, because, although I don't have any children, I do relate better to them than adults.
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
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For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for and behave in the initial chaos of a mass-casualty event.
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Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.
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Music can be such a vulnerable thing, so when you're delivering a vocal or writing a piece of music, it's easy to get sideways.
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When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.
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The soul, when accustomed to superfluous things, acquires a strong habit of desiring things which are neither necessary for the preservation of the individual nor for that of the species. This desire is without limit, whilst those which are necessary are few in number and restricted within certain limits; but what is superfluous is without end...
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There is a level of appreciation for brothers and sisters in the hood.
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When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.
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I've missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.
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Journalists often ask me: "Aren't you sorry that after all the work you've done, you're best known as Magneto and Gandalf?" But that's what I've always wanted - not to be known as myself. I want to draw attention to the characters.
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I started my second company in 1999. BodyMedia was set up to take advantage of the future of wearables - sensors and computing worn on our bodies in any and all ways that could make our lives better.
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When you buy a ticket, you're basically voting for whatever you see.
