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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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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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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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 find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.
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I had a nice life. It had its challenges like anybody's life, I guess.
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I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.
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I was a D student in high school and on the dean's list in college.
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The obsessive focus on a college degree has served neither taxpayers nor students well. Only 35 percent of students starting a four-year degree program will graduate within four years, and less than 60 percent will graduate within six years. Students who haven't graduated within six years probably never will.
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Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.
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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.
