David A. Siegel Quotes
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If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.'
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As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.
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Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.
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I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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I think life gives you lemons, and the thing that I'm working on doing is not watering it down, not putting sugar in it. Just drink it straight. The more you can take life head on... it's gonna make you a better person, and then you have nothing left to be afraid of. And what an awesome way to live.
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I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.
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There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
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One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.
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The actual game is only part of the Senior Bowl experience - the practices are equally important.
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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
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My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
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The tricky thing about songwriting is that, more often than not, what you consider to be your best work generates a collective shrug, and something you've simply tossed off bowls people over.
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As in everything, nature is the best instructor.
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Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by the annual loss of an area of rain forest the size of New Jersey. Less rain falls, and the water runs into the rivers instead of being sucked up by the fungus filaments and tree roots.
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Yeah, the whole 'One Tree Hill' experience made me realize I wanna write, and produce, and direct as well as act. I'm interested in all facets of the industry.
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She was an alcoholic. I didn't blame myself for that. The worst problem in the life of any alcoholic is alcohol.
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I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree.
