David Cassidy Quotes
Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I moved to New York City, and I got a job in a mail room, and I got an agent, doing what actors do, with head shots and all the rest of it.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I'm afraid to fail again.
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U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.
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As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.
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Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.
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I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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Novels are longer than life.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.
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I ended up gettin' a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and three other kids would pretend to be Kiss - I liked Gene the best.
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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
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It was nice to be in my own country, where I didn't need a translator or a driver. Where I didn't need to figure out cultural references or what hijab I needed to wear to cover my hair.
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The Legislative has no right to absolute, arbitrary power over the lives and fortunes of the people; nor can mortals assume a prerogative not only too high for men, but for angels, and therefore reserved for the exercise of the Deity alone.
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Sometimes a sound gets overused. There is such a thing as a good saxophone, but it's like those fields in agriculture - they need to rest for a year or so. You need time to burn all the saxophones and start from scratch.
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Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I moved to New York City, and I got a job in a mail room, and I got an agent, doing what actors do, with head shots and all the rest of it.
