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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Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world.
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The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.
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I am here, alone, at the end of the world. I reach out and touch nothing.
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My dad was not happy about my not becoming an architect like him.
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We are the movies and the movies are us.
