David Boies Quotes
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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No one person is an island.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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I am definitely a person of color.
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We are extremely focused on building some of the assets which are going into mid-India, semi-urban and rural, and that's our DNA. We are building a retail bank, and a lot of the deposit base is still in urban India.
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'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.
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I had an amazing childhood and always loved to sing and dance, but there were moments where I had ups and downs with my health that often tested me as it does many people. I've never hidden the fact that my health was sometimes not on my side, but I've never let it define me or deter me from my dreams.
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We score with the best of them. If we concentrate on defense like we do on offense, then we'll win a lot more ballgames.
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When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.
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There are really so many subtleties of meaning and observation that very often are not expressed by writers.
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Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
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We're lawyers. We present the arguments, and the court sorts out the merits.
