David Christian Quotes
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.
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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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A well begun is half ended.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I have disassociated myself from that book.
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I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.
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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
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Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.
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I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
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I have found that my fan base is a bit above average when compared to the common horror fan.
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If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy.
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What the event will be like, being part of the Olympics and being in London, is too much to think about. You've no control over those things, so in a way, it's wasted energy to think of them.
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Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
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The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again in 1940) was the invention of Germany
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Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a 'map' for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.
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The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about.
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Learning to domesticate the horse was a sort of energy revolution.
