David Agus Quotes
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
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I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.
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The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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I love women.
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Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster.
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I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.
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Markets are, in the end, man-made devices for utilitarian purposes, not a force of nature that we should not try to resist. If they end up serving the interests of only a tiny minority, as is increasingly the case, we have the right - and indeed the duty - to regulate them in the interest of greater social good.
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I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.
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I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: Today we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance.
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No don't you know my daddy told me,Told me right from the startAbout youth.He said no matter how old a man is,He's partly a boy in his heart.Yeah, and that's the truth.
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Suppose that I wish to deserve the title of 'robber of remorse' and that I place in myself all the townspeople’s repentence?
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With life and grandkids and the whole thing, every day is busy, but I'm so thankful to God that I'm still here.
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America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be disappointed in the object of your love, wanting it to be better than it is. In fact, that is a measure of love. Honest critique is a pillar of patriotism.
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We have about 360,000 employees in the VA health care system. It's the largest health care system in the country. And the negative attention that's been put on VA has hurt the morale of our workforce. And so what we're trying to do is to get people to understand that we're doing great work every day.
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Me, I'm good at nothing but walking on the set with a pretty dress.
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I want to do something I feel like I can do.
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Of all the things a body loves, predictability is one of them.
