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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I like the idea of an enlightened principality. In the early eighteen-hundreds, in Germany, there were princes who built schools, streets, homes. I like that.
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You've got too many formats adult contemporary, adult alternative, soft rock, neo-soul come on! ... I'm hoping I will fit in all the marketplaces and not be limited to one place in music.
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In fact, I bought our first family television with my own money, putting it on credit and then paying it off every week.
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In my heart I'm just a lucky waitress.
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No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.
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Big media companies can't be like big battleships; they have to feel nimble.
