David A. Siegel Quotes
I have enough money for the rest of my life and enough to leave a good inheritance for our kids.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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I got to see Jack White. I love his new album. There's a song on the album called 'I Think I Should Go to Sleep' that my son loves. We play it on a loop around the house, and he just bounces around.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.
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I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?
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I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.
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Reality shows that, contrary to other countries in southern Africa, we have no basis for a classical guerilla struggle. We have never had a hinterland, and we do not expect to.
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I have enough money for the rest of my life and enough to leave a good inheritance for our kids.
