David Boies Quotes
It's a matter of priorities. Do you want to win, or would you like to sleep? Do you want to win, or would you like to take a day off?
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
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My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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Spider-Man's probably my favorite. You see, Batman is a billionaire and there's nothing really cool about a billionaire saving the world. But Spider-Man is Peter Parker, a conflicted character who puts on a suit and saves the world. I love that.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.
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As far as guys who perform onstage, I love Chris Rock. I'm kind of jaded on everyone else.
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The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.
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It's kind of cool to have the whole country at your back. Not just a city, but the whole country is rooting for you.
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To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.
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The U.N. might not be the most luxurious place to work, but it certainly is one of the most important places in the world.
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.
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In truth, we are all part of the team of humanity. And as such, we are all obligated to share ourselves, and our talents, for the sake of the team.
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The word 'cancer' carries with it enormous fear, fear for the future, fear for family.
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I just love math and most people don't.
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They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.
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You must understand the feeling of originating as opposed to imitating.
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Over the vistas broke a cold gray light, such as seen in those false dawns that are neither night nor true morning, when the world and all its contents seem but shapes of mist, formed in vain hope and desire... If you awake from troubled sleep at such a time, you can only sit by the window and think of those that have been lost to you, those that followed your parents into those cold and heartless regions below the grass, silent and dark. Eventually, morning comes and the world resumes its solidity, but another tiny thread of ice has been stitched into your heart forever.
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I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no applause at the end of writing a book.
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My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading.
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It's a matter of priorities. Do you want to win, or would you like to sleep? Do you want to win, or would you like to take a day off?
