David Alan Basche Quotes
I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.
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In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.
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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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I've always wanted to do a travel show for people who never thought they could.
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If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
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These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.
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I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.
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After doing a juice cleanse, I'm motivated to eat healthier and not emotionally. Cleansing is like my meditation. It makes me stop, focus and think about what I'm putting into my body. I'm making a commitment to my health and hitting the reset button.
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I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
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All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.
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Despite the fact that Rouhani has been a long-time insider in a government that has committed countless human rights violations, and that he himself called for the execution of peaceful activists in 1999, many people inside and outside Iran are optimistic that he might indeed favor greater respect for the rights of the Iranian people.
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People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.
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Bill Rehnquist makes Barry Goldwater look like a liberal.
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And in my private life I prefer not to pass myself off as what I'm not (Daniel Brennan)
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When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
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I never thought black people would say I wasn't black enough. It didn't turn me into a bully - it just put me on the defensive. I had to watch my back. It made me stronger because I learned how to deal with ignorance.
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I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.
