David Axelrod Quotes
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
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Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
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You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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I don't think there is much American music.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
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Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
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Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.
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I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then don't get crazy, see what happens.
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Life is too short to be on a diet.
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Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage.
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A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.
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Much of the pressure contemporary parents feel with respect to dressing children in designer clothes, teaching young children academics, and giving them instruction in sports derives directly from our need to use our children to impress others with our economic surplus. We find "good" rather than real reasons for letting our children go along with the crowd.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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Without ideology, and with nothing but jobs for the boys at stake, party politics was losing its raison d’être, and trust in the old democratic order could no longer be taken for granted.
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We are a unified party.
