David Carey Quotes
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I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.
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I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum is from Yorkshire, and we would go up to the Moors. It tapped into our romantic visions of ourselves.
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I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.
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There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.
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I have to clean my room and unload the dishwasher, wash the pans, and feed the dogs.
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The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.
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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
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Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love.
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No one has a right to comment on anyone's life or the choices I do or don't make.
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Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys.
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There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.
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A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.
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Whatever you think, don't never, unless you will.
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If Oak Flat were a Christian holy site or, for that matter, Jewish or Muslim, no senator who wished to remain in office would dare to sneak a backdoor deal for its destruction into a spending bill - no matter what mining-company profits or jobs might result. But this is Indian religion.
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As much as I try, when I open my mouth, Lena comes out, And I get so mad.
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Big media companies can't be like big battleships; they have to feel nimble.
