David Cassidy Quotes
All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
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I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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I like doing my own stunts.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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If I went to the pub lunch and cleared my head with a pint surely there would be an insight, a flash of inspiration. Surely. My money went over the bar. The pint came back. Nothing else.
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One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is.
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You can't create chemistry. In fact, the chemistry between two actors is for people to see, sense, and judge. The only thing we can do as actors is to come on board individually because we feel the same kind of passion for a script and for a director to cast us because he feels that, as actors, we'll do justice to that part.
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If the majority of people were right, we'd be living in paradise. But we are not living in paradise, we are living in hell. What does it mean? That means the majority of people are wrong. So I never believed what people told me.
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All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.
