David Boies Quotes
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.
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Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.
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For 'Rosa Luxemburg,' I read everything by and about her, but the first time I was stuck in that corset, I got an understanding of her that I'd never had before.
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I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
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I've always felt, and I think I'm qualified to say so because I've won a few awards, that it's a terrible shame to put something in competition with something else to be able to sell something.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud.
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The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.
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Most people are balancing 10 or 20 priorities. I have two. My family and my work.
