David Brock Quotes
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
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We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
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It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.
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Even when a drunk guy, a program director, was slurring his words and telling me what to do with my career, I didn't react to him in a negative way. You kind of have to joke back with them to put them in their place.
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God has a wonderful plan for the second half of your life: to allow you to serve him by doing what you like to do and what you are good at.
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Governments are moved by numbers, and the greater the number of people who admit that they believe, the greater the likelihood that the secret - if there is one being kept - will be revealed.
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I remember being turned on to The Beach Boys, hearing 'Surfin' U.S.A.,' I guess, in 1960. But The Beatles really did it to me.
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My favorite aspect of being an author has always been visiting different communities and meeting my readers face to face.
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Progressives want a different sort of media than what the Right wants.
