David Christian Quotes
If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.
Quotes to Explore
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I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
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If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
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I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.
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White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.
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Unless I'm on a stage, I don't want to be the event in someone's day.
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Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.
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I've never seen hard work fail.
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I am an analog, slide-rule kind of guy.
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The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.
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But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.
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I love love, and I love life. I love. I just love. It's just great. It's the most enduring element we have is love.
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It took a lot for me to be able to say that I'm a plus-size model or a model at all without feeling terror or this kind of panic, because it was something so unplanned.
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A peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will likely depend to a great extent on the economic development of a future Palestinian state. As I have argued before, private sector investment - especially in the West Bank - is going to prove crucial in creating the right political and social context for peace.
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These guys that take a shower, grab a cup of coffee, and go straight to the tee? That's not the way to do it. When you warm up, hit 20 to 25 wedges, a few middle irons, and 10 to 15 3-woods and drivers. If you're going to putt, give yourself 10 minutes.
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I went to underground music studios. In the studios, I learned that you can make a movie without a permit.
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My approach to acting is the 'let's pretend' school of acting.
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Just because something is on trend, it might not work for you.
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Comedy has always been more challenging for me than drama.
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I've been doing a few interviews since the loss of the SpaceX Dragon on its way to the Space Station. Each one very quickly questions the viability of what they call commercial space in light of the failure. I tell them space is hard: this is what happens early in a program with new technology.
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I don't know about the press, but I know in the town where I live everybody was aware that I was in Africa, because I remember after I got back some of the people told me that Mayor Dura of our town said he just wished they would boil me in tar.
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If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.
