David Axelrod Quotes
This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and laying the groundwork for a better future. And that's what we want to work on with Republicans and Democrats.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achieve the success in the industry I want, and get married. If I achieve both of those, I can die completely stoked. I don't need anything else.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.
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The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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Regardless of how funny I want to be, I don't ever have a problem speaking from my heart or speaking honestly to people.
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There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.
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One of my central philosophies is to be creatively driven so I have to be extraordinarily creative in the way I get things done and I have to be really flexible. Striving for the best creativity can be a really moving target if you're trying to budget anything because if you come up with a better idea for something and it's going to make the movie stronger then you have to do it. And that's what I do. The difficulty is that you have to use more judgement as a producer then you might in other places. I have to make unbelievably great creative decisions.
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A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.
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'7 Years' is, you could say, a song that eats its own children. That we need to get past the song and get to the person and get to the record and get to the music so we can keep releasing.
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This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and laying the groundwork for a better future. And that's what we want to work on with Republicans and Democrats.
