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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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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Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
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The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.
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I had the great good fortune of working with Christopher Plummer, Frances Sternhagen, and Arthur Hill early in my career, and it set a standard for the kind of work I want to do.
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Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
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My parents couldn't be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.
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I have enough money for the rest of my life and enough to leave a good inheritance for our kids.
