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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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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He's gone home to deal with some family matters.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make when they cook for other people is to think that it has to be fancy and elaborate. This results in enormous expense and nine days of labor, plus you end up trying to assemble a croquembouche in front of your guests and everyone's experiencing flop sweat.
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For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.
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It is commonly said, and more particularly by Lord Shaftesbury, that ridicule is the best test of truth.
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If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.
