David Ansen Quotes
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
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Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.
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Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.
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People always say to me, 'You've really strived to redefine retail.' But the reality is, I wanted to redefine magazines.
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Nudity has never been a big deal to me. I sort of grew up with a lot of it in my family.
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I'm a masochist in some ways. I look for things that I think I can't do, then, for some bizarre reason, I really want to do them. Maybe one day I'll take the easy route.
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I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.
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You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.
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But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.
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You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
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To meet our troops was just wonderful, and I really, really admired the Iraqi security forces I met. I felt like, 'I'm pulling for you guys.' They want peace. They're working hard for it.
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And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.'
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There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries, than the neccessity of listening to sermons.
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I think implicit bias is a problem for everyone, not just police. I think, unfortunately, too many of us in our great country jump to conclusions about each other.
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I'm a massive yoga head. Lots of yoga and lots of running. I do Bikram yoga. I adore it.
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I think there will always be a possibility that God doesn't exist because He is infinitude and into that infinitude must come that possibility.
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I believe that we should, on biblical grounds, tell all parents of mentally disabled children that God loves their children, regrets terribly that they are disabled, and will, when they die, carry them gently into a heavenly life where every person is forever whole.
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Exchange rate understandings are of little use on their own.
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We are the movies and the movies are us.
