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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A work based only on a line concept is scarcely more than a illustration; it fails to achieve pictorial structure. Pictorial structure is based on a plane concept. The line originates in the meeting of two planes ... we can lose ourselves in a multitude of lines, if through them we lose our senses for the planes.
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Chemical propulsion is obsolete to go anywhere other than the moon. Three days - that's acceptable. But for Mars, we need propulsion technologies to get us there in, say, 60 days - then spend whatever length of time we want to spend and return when we want to come home.
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Do we love watching things burn so much that our best and most valuable contribution is to help toss another match?
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When I did 'Horses,' I never expected to make another album.
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Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.
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If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.
